Lisa Kleypas Quotes

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.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.

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'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

Dialogue is what a character's willing to share and reveal to another character, and the 90% they aren't willing to share is what I do for a living.

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.

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

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

Relationships help you learn more about what you want. If one doesn't work out, you just kind of look at it and go, Okay, well, this is what I did like and this is what I didn't like, and this is what I did wrong, and maybe I need to be more like this. And so you learn things, and that's why you grow. And you bring all the stuff that you've changed about yourself to a new relationship until you finally find that person you really, really want.

In love, anger is always false.

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

...Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.