Lisa Kleypas Quotes

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Lust is an appetite that needs to be regulated.

I drive by Baskin Robbins, and - I don't know, it's like - it's pretty hard. Or Dairy Queen. I go nuts. I just gotta keep going.

There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

I'm naturally inclined to have sex with every beautiful woman I see. But that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

You can't become tempted if you just give in a little quicker.

I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

Better not to give in to it.

Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

We have to figure this out, Jackson, so leash the lust.” His chin went up as he stared down at her. “Woman, you ask the impossible.” “Do it anyway!

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.