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Before Quotes by Lisa Kleypas
- Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that…
- To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking…
- It was a good hald minute before I looked over at Todd. his eyes were slightly foggy, like he was waking up- reluctantly- from a…
- I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda…
- I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a…
- I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something…
- I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.” Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, “If a band of pirates kidnapped me and…
- I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is the most insanely…
- Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.
- I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.
- She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no…
- 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…
- It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had…
- What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply. "The kind that turns you into my husband."…
- The baby woke up before you did. I took him to the other room to let you get a little more sleep. We've been watching…
- My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me." -Lillian Bowman
- A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting-- no, never mind, I was…
- Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her... he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before…
- I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and…
- 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.
- Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.
- I had learned this lesson so many times before. It was the great inner truth that didn't require the support of logic. Every time I…
- Well, I find a strange comfort in the fact that he wouldn't feel this degree of animosity now, had he not loved me so much…
- With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of you should point out that Beatrix deserves a better man."…
- When I fell in love with you... It was nothing like I'd ever known before. It was nearly instant. I think I started falling for…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood