Lisa Kleypas Quotes

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.

but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

I delight in what I fear.

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.

Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness.

Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.

I loved my mother, but I don't like her.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

We fear the thing we want the most.

I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

I like to think I am a happy angry person, if that makes sense.

I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a side of me that's - I don't know what the right word is - tormented or just feels very overwhelmed.

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.

I've been the saddest while I've been the most successful, strangely.

He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.

A divided heart offers a strange sensation.

It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.