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
amazing career choice college dreams education encouraged few follow gone graduated historical people romance students women
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice was a 'waste' of so much education.
crucial good matter people profession scare time
No matter what your profession is, it's good to scare yourself a little from time to time! It's crucial to keep challenging yourself and to learn from people who are more accomplished than you are.
struggle people difficult
Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?
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.
people matter weakness
He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.
people broken stubborn
The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.
people easy hard
Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?
giving people lost
I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.
hands people giving
Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.
mother knowing people
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.
two people together
The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.
two people attention
Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike.
people helping sometimes
Sometimes people don't have to make you love them...you just do, and there's no help for it.
thinking long people
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