Quote

If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.

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
Mistake
Making
Listened
Mistakes
Advice
Instead

More quotes by Lisa Kleypas

Image
I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who would have to tolerate me otherwise. Marry me because I need someone who will help me to laugh at myself. Because someone has to teach me how to whistle. Marry me, Lillian… because I have the most irresistible fascination for your ears.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in. -Hardy
Lisa Kleypas
Image
The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Dad, I said hesitantly, I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I love you enough for the both of us. And there must be something about me worth loving. If you would just try.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
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.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
When the pace of our feet matched perfectly, I felt a deep inner pang of satisfaction. I could have gone on walking like that forever, side by side with him. There had been few times in my life I had ever inhabited a moment so fully, with no loneliness lurking at the edges.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.
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
The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.
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
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
The bargain…” she mumbled. “You said I could kiss you,” came his gentle, wicked whisper near her ear. “But, my love…you didn’t specify where.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
It's drugs, isn't it? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -' 'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.
Lisa Kleypas