“I respect you," he murmured. "and your views. I think of you as an equal. I respect your brains, and all those big words you like to use. But I also want to rip your clothes off and have sex with you until you scream and cry and see God." -Jack Travis (Smooth Talking Stranger)”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.
-Ella Varner”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relationships happen.
There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike.
In fact, there is some scientific evidence to suggest that on a genetic level, the people who are the most opposite are the most likely to have a healthy and long-lasting pairing.
But really, who can explain the mysteries of attraction?
Blame it on Cupid.
The moon.
The shape of a smile.
Both of you can thrive on your differences, as long as you respect them.
You say tomato, he says tomahto .
Let it happen,
Dive in head first.
We usually learn the most about ourselves from people who are different from us.
—Miss Independent (ella varner)”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“You think I'd cheat on you?" I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster.
"With another guy, no. With a cheeseburger . . . in a heartbeat.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard."
"You'll never find out. You--------"
He kissed me.
~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“Dear Miss Independent,
I've decided that of all the women I've ever known, you are the only one I will ever love more than hunting, fishing, football, and power tools.
You may not know this, but the other time I asked you to marry me, the night I put the crib together, I meant it. Even though I knew you weren't ready.
God, I hope you're ready now.
Marry me, Ella. Because no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love you every day for the rest of my life.
—Jack”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.”
In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. “What’s the tenth thing?” I asked his shirtfront.
He paused, considering it. “Never mind,” he grumbled. “That one would make me sound like a psycho, too.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“No more Dane,” he eventually said with unnerving finality.
I tried to be funny. “I can't decide if that means you don't want me to see him again or if you're planning to kill him.”
“It means if the first thing happens, the second thing is likely to follow.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“If the feeling is there, you might as
well admit it. Saying the words, or not saying
them, doesn't change a damn thing”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“Dear Jack,
I love you, too.
And I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage— just choose someone you can't live without.
For me, that would be you.
So if you insist on being traditional . . .
Yes.
—Ella”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We also like truck-stop breakfasts, large moving objects, Monday night football, and the missionary position. We don't drink light beer, drive Smart cars, or admit to knowing the names of more than about five or six colors. And we don't wax our chests, ever.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“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, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“Back to what? A guy who bails on you when you need him? What's Dane doing now that's more important than helping you? Fighting for the rights of endangered ferns?"
I stiffened and pushed away from him, irritation jolting me out of my fugue-state. "You have no right to judge Dane or my relationship with him."
Jack made a scoffing sound. "That half-assed excuse for a relationship was over the moment Dane told you not to bring the baby to Austin. You know what he should have said?...'Hell, yes, Ella, I'll stand by you no matter what you do. Shit happens. We'll make it work. Come home now and get in bed.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“I forced myself to take another bite of bread, chewing casually. But inside I felt stricken, filled with unexpected yearning. And I realized the problem: no one I knew would have come up with that day for me.
This is a man, I thought, who could break my heart.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it.
-Ella”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“... no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love every day for the rest of my life.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am"
"Unbelievable," I said in disgust.
"What's unbelievable?"
"Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“Babies were dangerous . . .
they made you fall in love before you knew
what was happening.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“I had learned this lesson so many times
before. It was the great inner truth that
didn't require the support of logic. Every
time I loved, I lost, and I was diminished.
I wondered how much of me would be left
after tomorrow.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“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, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“How much do you have in common with
this guy?"
"Not much. Basically we're polar opposites.
But do you want to know the main attraction,
the weird part? . . . It's the talking."
"Talking about what?"
"About anything," I said earnestly. "We
get started and it's like sex, this back-andforth,
and we're both so there, do you know
what I mean? We rattle each other. And
some conversations seem to be happening on
a few different levels at once. But even when
we're disagreeing on something, there's a
weird kind of harmony in it. A connection.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“You told me you believed marriage was for other people."
"You're the only man who could make me believe that it's for me, too. Although when you get down to it, love is what's real. I still say marriage is just a piece of paper."
Jack smiled. "Let's find out," he said, and he pulled me down to the bed with him.
Jack & Ella”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
“Can't you just tell me now?"
"No, I need someone to eat with."
A slight smile rose to my lips. "Am I supposed
to believe that I'm your only option?"
"No. But you're my favorite option.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Smooth Talking Stranger
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“The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guarantee that the effort will be worth the trouble. spin the numbers, crack the code, but the door won't swing open. Babies are safes on time-delay. It takes years for the door to swing open, and even when it does, the best minds are undecided as to the value of the contents”
― Jeanette Winterson, quote from The Stone Gods
“This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.”
― Daniel Handler, quote from Adverbs
“Nazi kitsch may bear a blood relationship to the highbrow religion of art proclaimed by many moderns.”
― Modris Eksteins, quote from Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
“I will meet the cruel and the cowardly today, she thought, liars and the envious, the uncaring and unknowing: they will be all around. But their numbers and their carelessness do not mean I have to be like them. For my own part, I know my job; my commissions comes from Those Who Are.”
― Diane Duane, quote from The Book of Night with Moon
“He was absurd to the point of inspiration.”
― Joseph Conrad, quote from The Nigger of the Narcissus
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