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
past weakness links
We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.
secret world sometimes
Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.
winning trying arguing
Roy received my comments with a forced smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?" Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win.
fall falling-hard seems
Falling hard and fast. And there didn't seem to be a thing I could do about it.
train-wrecks fronts happenings
It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.
hard-work choices want
I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.
poverty
There is no peace in poverty
men exhausted loving-him
I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope—I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.
moving emotion burden
The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.
thinking hands opening-up
But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.
disappointment heart happens
It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.
children forgiving done
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.
way compromise knows
But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?" "Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.
childhood understanding rooms
He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.