Lisa Kleypas Quotes

I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

Why did he have to be so gorgeous? Why did he have to stand so close, and why did I still love him so much?

Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

I know how you guys feel about us. I'm not stupid, and believe me, I've tried to get you out of my head. But there isn't enough liquor or art or any other distraction in the world to do it. I had to stop going to Wolfe's because it was too hard being that close to you, even if it was all just pretend fighting. I couldn't stand the touching. It was agonizing because it meant something to me－and I knew it meant nothing to you. I kept telling myself to stay away altogether, and then I'd find excuses… like the car… anything to be around you again.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.

I need you more than he did. I don't expect you to love me as you did him.

I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in one way or another since I was 14. I go full-on in and get obsessive.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can't help ... just the sort of person I can't help falling in love with." ... As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn't help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if.

I can't make you love me, if you don't.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.