Lisa Kleypas: If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? T...

You can't love someone new without getting over the last one.

Lisa Kleypas

love-someone lasts

Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.” “Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh. He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.

Lisa Kleypas

eye heart laughing

I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.

Lisa Kleypas

god-knows sadness done

Pretend you're mine," he urged, his arms closing around her. "Just for a minute. Pretend there's never been anyone but me, that I'm the one you're promised to. Do it for me....I'll never ask again.

Lisa Kleypas

closing arms minutes

You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.

Lisa Kleypas

choices moving thinking

Oh, I have a very pure soul. It's only my private parts that have gotten me into trouble".

Lisa Kleypas

private-parts soul trouble

Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.

Lisa Kleypas

good-god celibacy believe

Neither of us seemed able to be close to anyone. Not even each other. Closeness meant the one you loved the most would cause you the most damage. How did you unlearn that? It was woven deep between every fiber and vessel. You couldn't cut it out.

Lisa Kleypas

able cutting woven

Heath," she whispered, "you're all I want. No one else ... no one . . .

Lisa Kleypas

want

- No, no... She shook her head for emphasis. No. His lips twitched. - One 'no' is enough, darling.

Lisa Kleypas

darling lips enough

Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the lord of the manor, always with bad results.

Lisa Kleypas

next falling-in-love lord

One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl.

Lisa Kleypas

goldfish men children

A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.

Lisa Kleypas

soulmate pulse winning

What happened to your stammer?" "I suppose I must feel comfortable with you. I tend to stammer less with certain people." "No one's ever told me that I'm a comfortable sort. I'm sure I don't like it. I'll have to do something diabolical soon to correct your impression.

Lisa Kleypas

impression certain people

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 to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive.

Lisa Kleypas

rip pain soul

A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.

Lisa Kleypas

enough lifetime

You shouldn’t rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.

Lisa Kleypas

second-chance bonus interesting

I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.

Lisa Kleypas

left tomorrow would-be

Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. "... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her." "Who was it?" "His own wife." "Oh, dear.

Lisa Kleypas

flirting whispering wife

It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.

Lisa Kleypas

missing heart interesting

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?