Lisa Kleypas Quotes

A lot of cases, what makes you an interesting and complex person makes you a really horrible person to be with romantically.

Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.' So I was the girl who wasn't dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn't have jobs, and I would always be paying. At one point, I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, 'You're too pretty and cool to be treated like this.'

When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

You know when people say, 'How do you go from Kanye to Wiz Khalifa - that's a downgrade.' But the only question I can ask them is: 'Have you ever dated Kanye? Because I have, and believe me, I did not downgrade at all. Not in any aspect, at all.'

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn't talk too much.

Love is different at different stages of your life.

My boyfriend and I are not good at fighting. We're better than we were when we started dating - two breakups and three years ago - but it's never come naturally to either of us. I have often wished we fought like I imagine Pink and Carey Hart fight.

Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!

I think a man's dream woman changes as he goes through different stages in his life. I'm fortunate to be dating my dream woman now.

It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.

You're never going to find a guy who's exactly like you - first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room.

Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.

We don't measure the quality of our other relationships by how well the other person turns out, for instance whether my husband is a better person after 10 years than he was when I first met him.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

I think it's cool when an ex-girlfriend becomes an XL girlfriend.

I think women are conditioned to stand by their man and watch them make it to the top, but most men never believe the person they get into a relationship with is going to rise any higher than she was when they met. It takes a very special, evolved person to be able to deal with change within a relationship.

How would you ever learn unconditional love if you were married to someone who met all the conditions?

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

I figured out the only way to get women in high school was not to care that much. Now I realize that you have to live your life and eventually they'll be attracted to you and you'll be attracted to them and it will just happen. I think. I think.

I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to: eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it's the best pie. It's on the menu constantly for both parties.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.