Lisa Kleypas Quotes

So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.

I'd never hurt another person.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

The unspoken word never does harm.

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

I have noticed that nothing that I never said ever did me any harm.

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

When you are caught with a big shot, you don't really feel it. It's like being in a car crash, and maybe your arm has been ripped off... it is only when you look down at it that you realise it has happened.

When growing up, there were never any conversations about the past, because if you don't ask the questions, you never get the answers.

How you use your voice is really important, and it's really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody's mood and immediately how their brain functions.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

I was in Manhattan during 9/11, and that was really the only thing that I related to as far as a disaster on a grand scale. It was really interesting to see on that day and in the weeks afterwards how people came together, and what people were able to do for each other, and what I found myself feeling and thinking and doing for the people around me, whether it was strangers on the street or my own family. It was really an experience that you can't fake.

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

Never underestimate those who you scar.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

I was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that followed, when none of us spoke about anything else really, a number of friends of mine, people I knew, including very experienced journalists, I heard them saying things like, well, now we understand what happened to you.

You never answer a question nobody does.