Lisa Kleypas Quotes

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

To choose love and jump in not knowing, with a lot of unknowns, is a brave act.

There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways, remain a stranger. This tremendous act of faith is something that can unlock in each lover powers of compassion, generosity, joy, passion, fidelity and hope that no one guessed was even there. That is why the confidence of young lovers is not foolish or arrogant, but an expression of a basic fact in human experience that the greatest of human gifts are set to work only when people are prepared to risk everything and first you risk it before God.

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you've lost your deposit. It's best if you don't say it.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.

It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.