Lisa Kleypas Quotes

The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since.

When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.

What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves.

I found my happy place the minute I saw you

I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

Whenever this person comes (the right girl) I'm sure you'll feel something you know

There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.

Still...you turn me on

I'm always shocked by the people who I'm attracted to. It's always completely random. I generally like people who are a bit crazy but yeah, that's pretty much my only prerequisite.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.

Love is why I came here in the first place.

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.

I have lov'd her ever since I saw her; and still I see her beautiful

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

Being interested in a woman is quite another matter from being in love with one.

The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.