Lisa Kleypas
Lisa Kleypas
Lisa Kleypasis a best-selling American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. In 1985, she was named Miss Massachusetts 1985 and competed in the Miss America 1986 pageant in Atlantic City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
smart college way
Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.
crazy normal sometimes
But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.
wish too-late lifetime
But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.
light darkness sparks
When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.
loneliness people good-times
I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.
feet might quiet
His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay.
girlfriend party waiting
Girlfriend, if you're waiting for a fairy godmother to show up with a dress and a ride, you're not going to make it to the party.
hurt kind
Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.
dad wish said
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.
believe dating-someone giving
But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was . . . and believe him when he did.
taken breathing nurse
Hardy Cates," I said, coming into the room, "you behave, or I'll step on your tube." The nurse seemed taken aback by my unsympathetic bedside manner. But Hardy's gaze met mine in a moment of bright, hot voltage, and he relaxed, reassured in a way that cooing sympathy could never have done. "That only works if it's a breathing tube," he told me.
letting-go long absence
I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.
done reason bigs
Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.
running running-away
I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.