Lisa Kleypas Long Quotations

Cam had once told her that the Rom believed the entire world was their home. As long as you were with your family you were home.

... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.

We assured Phelan that we were more than happy to let him have you and your menagerie,” Leo retorted. “After that, he said he needed to think.” “About what?” Beatrix demanded. “What is there to think about? Why is it taking him so long to make a decision?” “He’s a man, dear,” Amelia explained kindly. “Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.

As we talked, I had the sense of uncovering something precious and long-buried, fully formed. Our conversation was a process of removing layers, some of them easily dusted away. Other layers, requiring chisels or axes, were left alone for now. We revealed as much as we dared about what had happened during the years that separated us. But it wasn't what I had expected, being with Hardy again. There was something in me that remained stubbornly locked away, as if I were afraid to let out the emotion I had harbored for so long.

I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

She heard the trace of fear in his voice. The fear that a small boy must have felt when every woman he loved had disappeared from his life, swept away by a merciless fever. She didn’t know how to reassure him, or how to console his long-ago grief.

If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.

I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline

I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack