Lisa Kleypas Quotes

The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

Do you know what would keep me in Brazil, no matter what happened? Sex!

Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

I'm somebody's ex-wife, and I did things that drove him nuts. And now I'm somebody's girlfriend, for many years, and I've got different things that drive him nuts.

The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.

I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

The cute thing about being in a relationship is that you always miss being around your partner. After marriage, the good part is that you've got them forever. You have everything you wanted, and there's nothing more to achieve.

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

I'm a relationship girl, I like relationships, so I just miss being in one and chilling. And not dating.

You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him.

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

I can say I'm a relationship person, and I like relationships. I think I also like relationships because then you don't have to date because dating is horrible.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

Sex is good for about two years, and then you need love.

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

You seem to be absolutely unaware of the phenomenon of marriage - which is destructive to both man and woman. Love is creative, marriage is destructive. But love is not dependable: this moment it may be there and the next moment gone. And man wants permanent things; he is obsessed with permanent things. He wants security, safety, he wants to cling. Hence love is not reliable, so he created marriage.

A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.