Lisa Kleypas Thoughts

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.

What does your gut tell you?" "My gut and I aren't currently speaking to each other

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity. And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.

I guess I thought the strength of my wanting would be enough to make him appear.

Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.

I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.