Lisa Kleypas Quotes - Page 7

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• When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

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  Children, Forgiving, Done

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.308, Macmillan

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• It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.

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  Disappointment, Heart, Happens

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.298, Macmillan

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• But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

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  Thinking, Opening Up, Hands

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.

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  Moving Forward, Emotion, Burden

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.477, St. Martin's Press

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• Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

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  Despair, Would Be, Able

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• As we talked, I had the sense of uncovering something precious and long-buried, fully formed. Our conversation was a process of removing layers, some of them easily dusted away. Other layers, requiring chisels or axes, were left alone for now. We revealed as much as we dared about what had happened during the years that separated us. But it wasn't what I had expected, being with Hardy again. There was something in me that remained stubbornly locked away, as if I were afraid to let out the emotion I had harbored for so long.

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  Axes, Years, Long

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.558, St. Martin's Press

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• He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.

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  Childhood, Understanding, Rooms

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.575, St. Martin's Press

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• Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will. When we return to London, I'm going to embark on a spree of orgiastic debauchery that won't end until someone is arrested for it. But in the meanwhile...do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight-and tomorrow night-as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?

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  Holiday, Night, Two

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• What happened to your stammer?" "I suppose I must feel comfortable with you. I tend to stammer less with certain people." "No one's ever told me that I'm a comfortable sort. I'm sure I don't like it. I'll have to do something diabolical soon to correct your impression.

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  People, Certain, Impression

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “The Devil in Winter”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it's because you're so proper. Your necktie is never crooked, and your shoes are always shiny. And your shirts are so starchy. Sometimes when I look at you, I want to tear off all your buttons. Or set your trousers on fire. I've so often wondered-are you ticklish, my lord?

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  Fire, Shoes, Wicked

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• Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.

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  Song, Silly, Way

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• I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope—I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.

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  Men, Exhausted, Loving Him

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.178, Macmillan

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• Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?" "Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.

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  Things In Life, Knowing, Excess

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• Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much before.

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  Comfort, Degrees, Facts

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• Be happy, honey. No one deserves it more. But don't forget... I'm keeping one little piece of your heart for myself. And if you ever want it back.. .you know where to find it.

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  Heart, Pieces, Want

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• Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?

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  People, Easy, Hard

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.178, Macmillan

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• There is no peace in poverty

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  Poverty

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.455, St. Martin's Press

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• If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut.

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  Doors, Two, Would Be

  Lisa Kleypas (2013). “The Hathaways Complete Series: Mine Till Midnight, Seduce Me at Sunrise, Tempt Me at Twilight, Married by Morning, and Love in the Afternoon”, p.1378, Macmillan

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• Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.

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  Rude, Doe, Way

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “A Wallflower Christmas: A Novel”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.

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  Hands, World, Let Me

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• I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

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  Wish, New Life, Absence

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.180, Macmillan

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• As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.

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  Track, Lost Everything, Welcome

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.362, Macmillan

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• Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

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  Single, Car, Doubt

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Rainshadow Road”, p.53, Macmillan

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• If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.

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  Calling The Shots, Calling, Shots

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Rainshadow Road”, p.63, Macmillan

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• If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

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  Artist, Cooking, Portraits

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