Romance Quote by Lisa Kleypas — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?”

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

“The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough of the bold black scrawl to reveal that it had indeed been a love letter. And as Hannah read the singed and half-destroyed parchment, she was forced to turn away to hide the trembling of her hand.”

“Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you.”

“You don’t annoy me.” Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. “I thought you did, at first. But now I realize it was more like the feeling you get when your foot’s been asleep. And when you start moving, the blood coming back into it is uncomfortable . . . but also good. Do you understand what I mean?”

“For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.”

“I didn’t realize there were so many Brainiacs,” Ivy whispers.”

“No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. Jem Merlyn was a man, and she was a woman, and whether it was his hands or his skin or his smile she did not know, but something inside her responded to him, and the very thought of him was an irritant and a stimulant at the same time. It nagged at her and would not let her be.”

“he claimed her without claiming her, he wanted her without wanting her, and she needed more, she needed him, and he didn't give her that.”

“When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as long as they have each other.”

“Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music and the way he taught me through books and recordings. Then, he saved my life and refused to abandon me no matter how much I deserved it.”

“And blood and tears and screams did not matter anymore, because at least they are together.”