Quote

The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.

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
Feeling
Words
Feelings
Relinquishing
Else
Letting
Someone
Relief
Take
Beyond
Control
Responsibility

More quotes by Lisa Kleypas

Image
Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
She wanted him to stop, but more than that, she wanted him to go on forever.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Because I realized during the past few days that I can’t leave doubt in anyone’s mind about to whom you belong. Especially not yours.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
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.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
We’ll continue our discussion later. Right now I intend to escort Miss Peyton to her room.” “That is not a wise idea, in my opinion,” the earl said. “I’m glad I didn’t ask for it, then,” Simon returned pleasantly
Lisa Kleypas
Image
The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Fear you? she said without thinking. Good God, I would never do that. Easing her head back, Westcliff looked at her while a slow smile spread across his face. No, you wouldn't, he agreed. You'd spit in the devil's eye if it suited you.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
It was likely that no one had been surprised, however, as it was clear that Aline and Mckenna belonged together. There was something invisible and yet irrefutable that made them a couple. Perhaps it was the way both of them stole quick glances at each other when one though the other wasn't looking... glances of wonder and hunger.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis
Lisa Kleypas