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Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3) QUOTES

Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3) QUOTES

41 " There's nothing worse than breaking a promise to someone who cares about you. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

42 " Tell me
everything, I would say. All about the blues,
and the time your heart was broken, and
what scares you the most, and the thing
you've always wanted to do but haven 't
yet. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

43 " I feel like I've been
shut in a closet, and he's on the other side,
and he doesn't have the key to unlock the
door. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

44 " 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. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

45 " This doesn't have fuck-all to do with independence. You're scared because you know if you start something with me, it'll go to a place you and Dane never went. He won't stand by you--he's already proved it. He went pussy on you. And now he gets laid for that?"

---Jack Travis "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

46 " I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

47 " Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

48 " I had learned that there were substitutes
for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You
could find love with other people. You could
find it in places you weren't even looking.
But the original wound would never heal. I
would carry it with me forever, and so would
Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going
on with your life, knowing it was part of
you. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

49 " I didn't think there was any way to convince
Jack that he wanted more than I had to
give, that to people who'd been damaged the
way I had been, fear and the will to survive
would always be more powerful than attachment.
I could only love in a limited way "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

50 " The baby woke up before you did. I took him to the other room to let you get a little more sleep. We've been watching a game."
"Did he cry?"
"Only when he realized the Astros were having another first-round play-off flame out. But I told him there's no shame in crying over the Astros. It's how we Houston guys bond. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

51 " He's a fascinating gentleman.
Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending
one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished
sinning yet, and he'd let me know
when he was. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

52 " It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -'

'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

53 " Somehow the promise we had made on that piece of paper gave me more freedom than I’d ever known before. It allowed both of us to argue, to laugh, to risk, to trust—without fear. It was a confirmation of a connection that already existed. And it was a bond that extended far beyond the borders of a shared living space. We would have stayed together even without a marriage certificate . . . but I believed in the permanence it represented.
It was a piece of paper you could build a life on. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

54 " Sometimes when we're not paying attention,
relation-ships happen. There is no rule that
requires two people in love to be exactly
alike. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

55 " I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

56 " The feelings cut too deep for them to be put
on display. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

57 " It was a confirmation of
a connection that already existed. And it was
a bond that extended far beyond the borders
of a shared living space. We would have
stayed together even without a marriage certificate
. . . but I believed in the permanence
it represented.
It was a piece of paper you could build a life on. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

58 " Come on, Ella. Sleep green.'
Ignoring him, I got into bed wearing a T-shirt and boxer shorts printed with penguins. I reached over to the nightstand and flipped off the lamp.
A moment of silence, and then I heard a lecherous murmur. 'I like your penguins. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

59 " The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)

60 " Neither of us seemed able to be close to
anyone. Not even each other. Closeness
meant the one you loved the most would
cause you the most damage. How did you
unlearn that? It was woven deep between
every fiber and vessel. You couldn't cut it
out. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)