Lisa Kleypas Quotes

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

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

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

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

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people.

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

I still believe in love, most definitely. I'm just going to let that take the lead.

It takes people a while to trust you.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

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

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

It's a good idea to not get involved with somebody that you don't trust. That's for sure.

You have to trust or you're only living half a life.

Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.

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

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. And I'd much rather be that person who lets people in.

I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.