Lisa Kleypas
Lisa Kleypas
Lisa Kleypasis a best-selling American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. In 1985, she was named Miss Massachusetts 1985 and competed in the Miss America 1986 pageant in Atlantic City...
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CountryUnited States of America
axes years long
As we talked, I had the sense of uncovering something precious and long-buried, fully formed. Our conversation was a process of removing layers, some of them easily dusted away. Other layers, requiring chisels or axes, were left alone for now. We revealed as much as we dared about what had happened during the years that separated us. But it wasn't what I had expected, being with Hardy again. There was something in me that remained stubbornly locked away, as if I were afraid to let out the emotion I had harbored for so long.
loneliness feet forever
When the pace of our feet matched perfectly, I felt a deep inner pang of satisfaction. I could have gone on walking like that forever, side by side with him. There had been few times in my life I had ever inhabited a moment so fully, with no loneliness lurking at the edges.
mistake trying scared
I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.
way compromise knows
But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?" "Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.
disappointment heart happens
It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.
love-you eye thinking
I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.
advice
I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it.
kissing voice chocolate
You won't kiss me for diamonds," he said, his voice slightly raspy, "but you will for chocolates?" Poppy nodded.
heart things-in-life causes
Love will break your heart,[...] but love can also mend it. Not many things in life are both the cause and the cure.
second-chance interesting bonus
You shouldn’t rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.
path someday expected
No one can tell you what your path is . . . but someday you'll discover it. . . and it won't be at all what you expected.
breathing dry faces
Hunt seemed similarly indifferent to the show, his head inclined toward hers, his gaze locked on her face. Though his breathing remained soft and disciplined, it seemed to her that its rhythm had changed ever so slightly. Annabelle moistened her dry lips. “You …you mustn’t stare at me like that.” Soft as the murmur was, he caught it. “With you here, nothing else is worth looking at.
hands names skulls
Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the privacy of her thoughts. Moistening her dry lips, she tried once more, and to her astonishment, she did it again. “Simon…” “Yes?” A new tension had entered his long, hard body, and at the same time, his hand moved over the shape of her skull in the softest caress possible. “Please… take me to my room.” Hunt tilted her head back gently and regarded her with a sudden faint smile playing on his lips. “Sweetheart, I would take you to Timbuktu if you asked.
love-you trying enough
I love you enough for the both of us. And there must be something about me worth loving. If you would just try…