Quote

Shaw...has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her? Good God, no, Gideon replied with a snicker. Shaws don't write poetry. They pay others to write it for them and then take the credit for it.

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
Good
Poetry
Snicker
Pay
Snickers
Woman
Shaw
Write
Gideon
Others
Replied
Ever
Poem
Take
Credit
Writing
Asked

More quotes by Lisa Kleypas

Image
But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right? Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Where's your instruction manual? I asked him. What's the baby customer-service number?
Lisa Kleypas
Image
What did you do with memories, feelings, needs, that didn’t belong anywhere?
Lisa Kleypas
Image
But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.
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
But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I can't get it out, she said. Just pull at it. It hurts. It's throbbing. Pull harder. I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby? No. Not anything? Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
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.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
She was a beautiful woman, if not a happy one, and attracting a man was never a problem. Keeping one, however, was a different matter.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
You're surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it's in your lungs and under your tongue and between your fingers and toes.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
I understood finally that the thing I should have feared most was not loss, but never loving. The price for safety was the regret I felt at this moment. And yet I would have to live with it for the rest of my life
Lisa Kleypas
Image
You shouldn’t rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.
Lisa Kleypas
Image
Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.
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
If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.
Lisa Kleypas