“Sometimes people don't have to make you love them...you just do, and there's no help for it.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Heath," she whispered, "you're all I want. No one else ... no one . . .”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“He caressed the side of her jaw with his fingertips, sending a light shiver down her spine. "I should warn you that if we lose the paper, we'll have to sell the house.”
“That’s fine.”
“And the furniture.”
“I don’t care.”
“And—“
“We can pawn, sell, and trade off everything we own… but if you dare say one thing about my diamond, you’ll regret it for the rest of your married life. This ring is mine, and it's not leaving my finger."
He grinned at her vehemence. "I wasn’t going to say anything about your ring, honey.” Bending down to kiss her, he left wet handprints on the waist and bodice of her gown, but Lucy was too enthralled by his hearty kiss to protest.
"You taste like coffee," she whispered when his lips left hers.
"I could do with more."
"Coffee or kisses?"
"Always more kisses . . .”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“There hasn't been any other woman," Heath said against her mouth, making her tremble. "There couldn't be. I'm too obsessed with my own wife. There's only one thing you can give me that no one else can . . . and heaven and hell be damned, I'll get it from you no matter how long I have to wait, no matter how hard I have to ride you. No, I'm not talking solely about my husbandly rights, although that would be a good place to start.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Pretend you're mine," he urged, his arms closing around her. "Just for a minute. Pretend there's never been anyone but me, that I'm the one you're promised to. Do it for me....I'll never ask again.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Don't tell me you don't trust me, Lucinda. For the way I exercised such commendable restraint last night, I deserve a medal, not suspicion.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Heath had been there to help her, letting her draw from his strength. Did she have enough strength to sustain him in the same way?”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“They had known each other intimately, as husband and wife, countless times, He had held her with tenderness and passion, but never with such rampant wildness.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“This was never making love before..not before you.I knew how different it was going to be with you the first time we kissed."
"You knew that...just from a kiss?"
"I'll have to remind you about the kiss.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“You're so sweet . . . Cinda ... I knew you would feel like this ... I knew it would be this way. Put your arms around me . . . ah, Cin. . .”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Why did you call me that?"
"Cinda? Because no one else does.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“And he raised his glass to her. It could have been a compliment. Or the most sarcastic gesture anyone had ever made to her.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Everyone's looking," she whispered, letting him lead her to the center of the waltzing couples, several of which moved to allow them plenty of room.
"Everyone's been looking at you all night," he said wryly. "Especially me.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Someday I'm going to throw you across his back and ride off west with you...and you'll learn to make a coffee in a tin pot over a fire, and we'll sleep underneath a wagon and look out at the stars-”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Thank you," Emerson said, bowing his head and accepting the box with the tender hands of a parent holding a child. "I am indebted-"
"Don't be.This doesn't mean I like you or your politics any better," Heath said gruffly.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“He's a good man.He's staightforward and he knows exactly what he wants-"
"Yes. You must favor your mother."
She smiled reluctantly at the gentle taunt.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Don't do that with your fiance," Heath said. "He'll be asking where you learned it.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“I was..sorry that you had been in prison camp.."
"A reassuring sentiment, coming from my wife. Anything else?”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“A toast to the engagement on your former fiance and your former best friend. Tell me, how hard did you have to grit your teeth?"
As Lucy refused to answer, he laughed softly. "Forgive me. I don't mean to detract from your noble gesture.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“The purpose of the latest series of intellectual meetings, which were held in various parlors in Concord, was to talk about Reconstruction with objectivity, sensibility, and a lack of prejudice. As everyone had expected, the meetings were far from objective, seldom sensible, and never unprejudiced.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“As he looked up and saw is audience poised on the staircase, he gave a curt nod that barely passed for a greeting.
"Well," Lucy said, "it looks as if you Christmas spirit has undergone a beating.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Lucy waited patiently, knowing that he did want to talk, or he wouldn't have put on such a performance when he came in. Heath's door slamming was always an announcement that a conversation was in order.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Good Morning," she said.
"We all have our own opinions about that, Mrs. Rayne.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“And now she's right where she wants to be,Lucy thought with a stab of fury. How easily men were taken in by women! A few tears, some sweet Southern helplessness. Oh,it must have been ridiculously easy for Raine.And here she, Lucy, was, harboring the woman under her own roof! It had the makings of a fine farce.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“You're unbelievable," he said in a low voice, and it wasn't a compliment. "It amazes me that there was ever a time I thought you needed toughening up."
"Would you prefer someone more...helpless?"
Even Lucy had to admit that she had pushed him too far.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“In the past year I've gotten used to being cut down to size whenever I start acting too high and mighty. If you didn't keep me in line,I'd be damn well unmanageable. As it is, you're going to have a lot of work to do once they leave.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
“Maybe when you're married, you'll have a better idea of what desperate lengths you'll go to...for your sake,I hope not.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Love, Come to Me
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“[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set to turn artificial moonlight into the flickering images of the late show. We can put on a turntable whatever consolation we most respond to, Mozart or Copland or the Grateful Dead.”
― Wallace Stegner, quote from Angle of Repose
“As he vomited, he felt, though did not see, V come over. Forcing his head up, Butch groaned, "Help me..."
I'm going to, trahyner. Give me your hand." As Butch held his palm up in despair, Vishous whipped off his glove and grabbed on good and hard. V's energy, that beautiful, white light, poured down Butch's arm and ripped through him in a blast, cleansing, renewing.
United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Lover Revealed
“Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Club Dead
“The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought about the rhythms of cooking, one of which involves destroying the order of the things we bring from nature into our kitchens, only to then create from them a new order. We butcher, grind, chop, grate, mince, and liquefy raw ingredients, breaking down formerly living things so that we might recombine them in new, more cultivated forms. When you think about it, this is the same rhythm, once removed, that governs all eating in nature, which invariably entails the destruction of certain living things, by chewing and then digestion, in order to sustain other living things. In The Hungry Soul Leon Kass calls this the great paradox of eating: 'that to preserve their life and form living things necessarily destroy life and form.' If there is any shame in that destruction, only we humans seem to feel it, and then only on occasion. But cooking doesn't only distance us from our destructiveness, turning the pile of blood and guts into a savory salami, it also symbolically redeems it, making good our karmic debts: Look what good, what beauty, can come of this! Putting a great dish on the table is our way of celebrating the wonders of form we humans can create from this matter--this quantity of sacrificed life--just before the body takes its first destructive bite.”
― Michael Pollan, quote from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to
whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.”
― Ally Carter, quote from I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
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