Julia Quinn Quotes

She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can’t quite explain. Sometimes it’s just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else.

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?" Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one's true love.

In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?" "You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. "Don't," he said, barely recognizing his own voice. Her eyes met his, and he said, "I'll be your blanket".

He sucked his lips in an attempt not to laugh. "Aren't you Spanish?" She raised one arm in a salute. "Viva la Queen Isabella!" "I see. Then why are you speaking with a French accent?

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.

The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite certain it would take a full twelve months for her ears to recover.

But looking beautiful isn't, I think, as important as feeling beautiful.

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

You have a mother?" He quirked a brow. "Did you think mine was some sort of divine birth? My father was a remarkable man, but even he was not that talented.

Love works in mysterious ways.

I thought you wanted food," she gasped. "I do," he murmured, tugging on the bodice of her dress. "But I want you more.

She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

Caroline, do you value your neck?" "Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?" "Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.

People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield

A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor - ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock.

Did you know I dream about your hair? I use to say it was the color of the sun at sunset, but I'm wrong. It's brighter than the sun, just as you are.

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.

It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.

There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.

Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

It was funny, he reflected later, how one’s life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it’s simply ... not

In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.

I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.