Lisa Kleypas Zitate

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“I'm not the marrying kind -"
St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.”

“A book had always been a door to another world… a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.

And that love could fill the real world with magic.”

“Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts."

~Leo to Merripen”

“If the feeling is there, you might as
well admit it. Saying the words, or not saying
them, doesn't change a damn thing”

“Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.”

“You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me.”

“Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.”

“A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.”

“I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people… those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.”

“I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.”

“A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.”

“He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.”

“So are you bisexual?” I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label.

“I guess I'm bipossible,” he had said.”

“Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.”

“And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.”

“If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.”

“I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.”

“I don't share my body heat indiscriminately.”

“The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never know what adventures await."… "So we're going to take this road," he murmured, "and see where it leads.”

“Dear Jack,

I love you, too.

And I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage— just choose someone you can't live without.

For me, that would be you.

So if you insist on being traditional…

Yes.

—Ella”

“Make your choice and accept the consequences.”

“It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.”

“No one had ever said such things to her before. People were intimidated by her self-possession and no-nonsense demeanor. No man would ever dream of calling her adorable, sweet, darling… and certainly no one had ever made herthat way.”

“Sometimes an imitation of love can be pretty damn convincing.”

“You know what it is you smell on him, Haven? Testosterone. It's leaking out of his pores.”

“My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.”

“You wouldn't have taken Rose to such a place, would you?"

"Of course not, but she is a little girl, and I'm-"

"My life", he interrupted quietly. "You're my entire life. If anything ever happens to you, Holly, there is nothing left for me.”

“Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone----the pleasure is in the exchange."

-Liberty Jones”

“She let a teasing tone enter her voice. 'Is thereemergency for which you are not prepared, Mr Swift?'
'Miss Bowman, if I had enough pockets I could save the world.”