Lisa Kleypas - Love Quotes

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I was going to have to leave you anyway. Because I loved you too much to drag you down with me." My hand crept up to caress the rigid line of his jaw. "Why'd you change your mind?" I whispered. "After I calmed down a little and had a chance to think, I figured... I love you enough to try and deserve you. I would do anything, be anything, for you.

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I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.

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There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you're my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart?

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But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.

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Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.

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I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick... accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you.

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The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

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Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.

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Did you fall in love with her?" "I care about her. A lot." "You're not supposed to marry someone if you don't fall in love with her." "Well, love is a choice, too." Holly shook her head. "I think it's something that happens to you." Mark smiled into her small, earnest face. "Maybe it's both," he said, and tucked her in.

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I've told you before, I love like a madman, he said. Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I'm absolutely intolerable.

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I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.

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You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.

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Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.

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The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.

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When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

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I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

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Bending his head over hers, Leo murmured, "When I give you away at the altar, Bea, I want you to remember something. I'm not really giving you away. I'm merely allowing him the chance to love you as much as the rest of us do.

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Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.

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Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love, the boy explained. He paused thoughtfully. But I don't think the rest of it hurts as much as the beginning.

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The bargain… she mumbled. You said I could kiss you, came his gentle, wicked whisper near her ear. But, my love…you didn't specify where.

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Love will break your heart,[...] but love can also mend it. Not many things in life are both the cause and the cure.

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It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

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

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You can't love someone new without getting over the last one.

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I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger... it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.

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