“Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Then Came You
“I want to give you whatever elusive, impossible, goddamned mysterious thing it is you need in order to be happy. Does that frighten you? Well, it frightens the hell out of me. Don't you think I'd stop feeling this way if I could? It's not as if you're the easiest woman in the world to—" He checked himself suddenly.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Then Came You
“Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Then Came You
“You'll be my wife," he said inexorably.
"You want to own me!" she accused, trying to crawl away from him.
"Yes." He flung her down on the bed and flattened his weight on her. As he spoke, his hot breath fanned
her mouth and chin. "Yes. I want other people to look at you and know you're mine. I want you to take
my name and my money. I want you to
live with me. I want to be inside you . . . part of your thoughts . . . your body . . . all of you. I want you to
trust me. I want to give you whatever elusive, impossible, goddamned mysterious thing it is you need in
order to be happy. Does that frighten
you? Well, it frightens the hell out of me. Don't you think I'd stop feeling this way if I could? It's not as if
you're the easiest woman in the world!!”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Then Came You
“You should hate me," she said brokenly. "You should leave me—"
"Hush." His grip tightened, just short of bruising her. "Do you think so little of me? Damn you." He crushed his lips in her hair. "You don't understand anything about me. Did you think I wouldn't want to help you? That I would abandon you if I knew?"
"Yes," she whispered.
"Damn you," he repeated, his voice choked with anger and love. He forced her face upward. The hopelessness in her eyes caused a cold pressure to squeeze around his heart.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Then Came You
“Dearest Lily." Penelope took her hand and pressed it between her own. "Since I was a little girl, I've always thought of you as the most beautiful, most courageous, most everything. But not practical. Never practical.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Then Came You
“Alex's gaze bore her through like an icicle. He was tempted to shove her back into the ornate carriage and tell the driver to head straight for London. Or a far hotter place.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Then Came You
“He seemed to read her thoughts easily, as if she were a treasured volume he had paged through a thousand times.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Then Came You
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“Don’t let others speak for you, or you will lose your voice forever.”
― S.M. Boyce, quote from Lichgates
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail
“Eric Hoffer, studied the reasons why people voluntarily give away responsibility and join mass movements and mobs. One quote he collected came from a young German who explained that he joined the Nazi party to be “free from freedom.”
― quote from Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
“There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.”
― Drunvalo Melchizedek, quote from The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1
“The key with boundaries is that you always set them around those things that are yours: your body, your mind, your emotions, your time, intimacy with you. You always have a right to regulate access to what is yours. But by the time the boundaries of your self have become blurred with those of your partner, setting boundaries and defining your self feels like taking something away from her that she had come to regard as hers.”
― Franklin Veaux, quote from More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
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