Quote

You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.

Lisa Kleypas

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
Author
Novelist
Writer
Temple
Texas
Lisa Kleypas Ellis
Prickly
Tempered
Suited
Mistress
Wife
Better

More quotes by Lisa Kleypas

Image
Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that’s not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there’s a little starlight in each of us.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Dane was shaking his head firmly. Don't bring it here, Ella. No babies. I gave him a dark look. What if it were a baby polar bear or a baby Galapagos penguin? I bet you'd want it then. I'd make an exception for endangered species, he allowed. This baby is endangered. It's with my mother.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Bending his head over hers, Leo murmured, When I give you away at the altar, Bea, I want you to remember something. I'm not really giving you away. I'm merely allowing him the chance to love you as much as the rest of us do.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Some people there's no getting over.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
What kind of wedding would you like? he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply. The kind that turns you into my husband. She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. What kind would you like? He smiled ruefully. A fast one.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
It's a strange life, isn't it? ...A Rom with no tribe. No matter how hard you look, you can never find a home. Because to us, home is not a building or a tent or a vardo... home is a family.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I feel like I've been shut in a closet, and he's on the other side, and he doesn't have the key to unlock the door.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.
Lisa Kleypas