Judith McNaught Quotes

“You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.”

“I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.”

“He will love only once - but it will be for always.”

“Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel.
Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart”

“I want more from life than that and I have more to give.”

“We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?”

“God help him." He chortled. "He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it."
-Dr. Whitticomb”

“Love can't be forced into existence,(…)It won't come simply because you will it to happen”

“If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I
was nothing until you.”

“She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.”

“You needn't worry about your appearance, my dear, because true beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.”

“Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.”

“The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.”

“A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.”

“Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them.

-Royce Westmoreland”

“Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery”

“Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you."
"I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin.
"And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.”

“‎People who talk less frequently notice more.”

“Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?"

-Royce Westmoreland”

“Because,” he said quietly as she stood up, “until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden.”

Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. “What is it now?”

“Heaven.”

“I used to be ashamed
And now I am proud.
The world once was black
And now it is bright.
I used to walk head bent
And now I stand up tall.
I used to have dreams
But now I have hope.”

“I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.”

“It isn’t what you say that counts, it’s what you don’t say.”

“It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.”

“Reformed rakes often make the best husbands.”

“An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to
keep.”

“Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she
bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!"

-Royce Westmoreland”

“Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find that our dreams and memories quiet surpassed reality.

-Lady Anne, Whitney's aunt”

“Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.”

“I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.”

“After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.”

“Whitney: Where is your home?
Clayton: Wherever you are.”

“We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.”

“Let me go.”
“I can’t”, he said hoarsely, (…)” I’ve tried a hundred times to let you go, Victoria, but I can’t.”

“Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?”

“You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has."

-Clayton Westmoreland”

“The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.”

“How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it”

“Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".”

“Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.”

“God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped.
"God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first.”

“Which brings me to the question of why we always 'fall' in love. One falls down steps, off ladders, into rivers and down mountains. If love is so wonderful, why don't we soar in love or climb in love?”

“Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.”

“What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits?"
"I turn you into a hand­some frog.”