“Just don't ask me to stand up with you at the wedding, as I have no desire to be a hypocrite." "No,… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Why isn't it enough that I'm willing to submit to you?' Poppy asked, her own temper flaring. 'Why must I be eager… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“You'll be my wife," he said inexorably. "You want to own me!" she accused, trying to crawl away from him. "Yes." He… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Marcus's fear that his wife might succumb to childbed fever receded day by day as Lillian returned to her old self, healthy… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I think if you wanted a peaceful marriage and orderly household, you should have proposed to any one of the well-bred simpletons… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“In this regard, Daisy reflected, her marriage to Matthew would not be unlike Lillian's with Westcliff. As two strong-willed people with very… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Dearest," she murmured, "as you know, there was a time when it didn't matter to me whether I married a man I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders curving around her as if… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Be that as it may, I think someday you'll meet a man worth giving up your independence for.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I was..sorry that you had been in prison camp.." "A reassuring sentiment, coming from my wife. Anything else?” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You told me you believed marriage was for other people." "You're the only man who could make me believe that it's for… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Murmuring her name, he brought her hand to his face and nuzzled ardently into her palm, his lips brushing the warm circlet… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply. "The kind that turns you… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“He couldn't change the fact of what he was, nor would he be able to shield Amelia from all the arrows that… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Coming to stand by her husband's side, Lara touched his arm tentatively."My lord," she said gratefully. "Thank you for protecting my sister.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Why aren't you married?" "Why aren't you?" she parried. "I like my independence too well to relinquish any part of it." "That's… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“residual awkwardness between them. It wasn’t exactly comfortable to spend time in the company of a man whose wife you had once… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“The chef turned back to the housekeeper. “Why is there doubt about the relations between Monsieur and Madame Rutledge?” The sheets,” she… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“What did she mean when she said she would lose everything if she married me?" he asked aloud. "Perhaps she's in love… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, in spite of all she had heard about the ideal of a perfect marriage, there was no such thing. Perhaps every… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“It was a popular belief in Victorian society that women, with their mercurial natures and lesser brains, could not have the same quality of… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Just don't ask me to stand up with you at the wedding, as I have no desire to be a hypocrite." "No, just an… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Why isn't it enough that I'm willing to submit to you?' Poppy asked, her own temper flaring. 'Why must I be eager to lie… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Then, as now, there were always girls who were overlooked and ignored by gentlemen who really should have known better.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“You've always been a know-it-all. Well, you're about to find out how much you don't know." "Believe me," I muttered, "I'm the first one… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Sometimes you meet a really nice guy, but no matter how you try, you can’t seem to make yourself want him. But that’s not… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Risking a glance at the dignified young man beside her- what was his name?- Mr. Arthurson, Arterton?- Pandora decided to try her hand at… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“You'll be my wife," he said inexorably. "You want to own me!" she accused, trying to crawl away from him. "Yes." He flung her… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“You thought I was peculiar,” she said in a muffled voice. His mouth brushed the edge of her ear and settled against her neck.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image