Julia Quinn famous quotes

And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way.... ....His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds. Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.
-- Julia Quinn

#Horse #Fall #Taken

It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one.
-- Julia Quinn

#Soulmate #Heart #Two

Love works in mysterious ways,
-- Julia Quinn

#Way #Mysterious

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.
-- Julia Quinn

#Doubt #Shadow #Hints

Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.
-- Julia Quinn

#Smart #Heart #Personality

Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.
-- Julia Quinn

#Love #Inspirational #Marriage

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

#Romance #Happy Endings

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

#Unrequited Love #Years #Glimpse

Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all the while.
-- Julia Quinn

#Heart #Desire #Noses

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...
-- Julia Quinn

#Men #Years #Trying

Above all else, be true to your heart. When you marry, whether it be a marquis or an estate manager (or both!), it will be for life. You must go where your heart leads and never forget that love is the most precious gift of all. Money and social status are poor substitutes for a warm, tender embrace, and there is little in life more fulfilling than the joy of loving and knowledge that you are loved in return.
-- Julia Quinn

#Heart #Love Is #Joy

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

#Lying #Reading #Bliss

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?
-- Julia Quinn

#Queens #Laughing #Lips

You are always looking at people like this.” And then she made a face, one he couldn’t possibly begin to describe. “If I ever look like that,” he said dryly, “precisely like that, to be more precise, I give you leave to shoot me.
-- Julia Quinn

#People #Giving #Looks

the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.
-- Julia Quinn

#Unexpected #Moments

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?
-- Julia Quinn

#Needs #Emotion #Blame

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.
-- Julia Quinn

#Mother #Father #Men

He gave her his best smile. His best I-almost-died-so-how-can-you-deny-me smile. Or at least that’s how he hoped it appeared. The truth was, he wasn’t a very accomplished flirt, and it might very well have come across as an Iam- mildly-deranged-so-it’s-in-all-of-our-best-interests-if-youpretend- to-agree-with-me smile.
-- Julia Quinn

#Flirting #Might #Deny

Everyone has secrets. Especially me.
-- Julia Quinn

#Secret

You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well." "Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?" "Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him. "Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.
-- Julia Quinn

#Dark #Thinking #Color

What?" "You're so neat," she said, looking almost embarrassed. He glanced pointedly over his shoulder. "There are four hundred on the other side of this door." "But you're ruining me." "I can't do it neatly?
-- Julia Quinn

#Doors #Sides #Four

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.
-- Julia Quinn

#Sweet #Writing #Men

Olivia: You didn't even know I was there! Harry: Excuse me, yes I did.
-- Julia Quinn

#Olivia #Excuse #Excuse Me

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.
-- Julia Quinn

#Trying #Looks #Attention

Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away.
-- Julia Quinn

#Gentleman #Get Away

There,” she said triumphantly. “Like that.” He began to wonder if they were speaking the same language. “Like what?” “That! What you just said.” He crossed his arms. It seemed the only acceptable reply. If she couldn’t speak in complete sentences, he saw no reason why he had to speak at all.
-- Julia Quinn

#Saws #Arms #Language

How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.” He moved his head slightly to the side. It seemed to be a sickly interpretation of a shrug. “Of course you’re feeling terrible,” she clarified, “but is there any change? More terrible? Less terrible?” He made no response. “The same amount of terrible?
-- Julia Quinn

#Mean #Feelings #Trying

To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.
-- Julia Quinn

#Writing #Heart #Dukes

She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to wrap himself around, bury himself within her, and stay there for all of his days. He hadn’t had a drop to drink in three years, but he was intoxicated now, bubbling with a lightness he’d never thought to feel again.
-- Julia Quinn

#Rain #Years #Heaven

When you walk into a room,” he said softly, “the air changes.
-- Julia Quinn

#Air #Rooms #Said

Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache—the kind that one could almost—but never quite—ignore.
-- Julia Quinn

#Pain #Heartache #Way

And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click. The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out. "You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door. "Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.
-- Julia Quinn

#Taken #Doors #Next

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

#Writing #Ink #World

Perriwickturned to Penelope as he set the tray down on a table. "If I might be so bold, my lady-" "Perriwick!" Blake roared. "If I hear the phrase 'if I might be so bold' one more time, as God is my witness, I'm going to toss you into the channel!" "Oh dear," Penelope said. "Perhaps he does have the fever, after all.Perriwick , what do you think?" The butler reached for Blake's forehead, only to have his hand nearly bitten off. "Touch me and die," Blake snarled.
-- Julia Quinn

#Thinking #Hands #Fever

The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again.
-- Julia Quinn

#Girl #Hands #Needs

I am going to kill you," he hissed. She gulped. "Don't you want to lecture me first?" He stared at her with a heavy dose of stupefaction. "I take that back," he said with precisely clipped words. "First I am going to strangle you, and then I am going to kill you." "Here?" she asked doubtfully, looking around. "Won't my dead body look suspicious in the morning?
-- Julia Quinn

#Morning #Firsts #Lectures

He blinked a few times, each motion so slow that he was never quite sure if he’d get his eyes open again. He wasn’t wearing a shirt. Funny how he was only just realizing it. Funnier still that he couldn’t seem to summon any concern for her maidenly sensibilities. She might be blushing. He couldn’t tell. It was too dark to see. But it didn’t matter. This was Honoria. She was a good egg. A sensible egg. She wouldn’t be scarred forever by the sight of his chest.
-- Julia Quinn

#Eye #Dark #Eggs

Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.
-- Julia Quinn

#Men #Said #Nature Of Man

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

#Watches #Idiot

But when Anthony kissed her, she felt as if she were losing her mind. And when he kissed her twice, she wasn't even sure if she wanted it back!
-- Julia Quinn

#Mind #Losing #Wanted

Caroline Trent hadn't meant to shoot Percival Prewitt, but she had, and now he was dead. Or at least she thought he was dead.
-- Julia Quinn

If you do not apologize to Lady Honoria,” Marcus said, his voice so mild as to be terrifying, “I will kill you.” There was a collective gasp, and Daisy faked a swoon, sliding elegantly into Iris, who promptly stepped aside and let her hit the floor. “Oh, come now,” Mr. Grimston said. “Surely it won’t come to pistols at dawn.” “I’m not talking about a duel,” Marcus said. “I mean I will kill you right here.
-- Julia Quinn

#Mean #Voice #Talking

Your heart is free now." "No," he whispered. "It's yours.
-- Julia Quinn

#Heart

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

#Tugging #Dresses #Want

Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade.
-- Julia Quinn

#Grandmother #Thinking #Names

I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is most peculiar.
-- Julia Quinn

#Niece #Eyelashes #Bats

Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, “Yes! Yes! I win!” “You don’t win,” Anthony snapped. “Oh, it feels like I’ve won,” she reveled.
-- Julia Quinn

#Crazy #Winning #Jumping