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Judith McNaught is a bestselling author of over a dozen historical and contemporary romance novels, with 30 million copies of her works in print. She was also the first female executive producer at a CBS radio station. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. May 1944

Works

Whitney, My Love
Whitney, My Love
Judith McNaught
A Kingdom of Dreams
A Kingdom of Dreams
Judith McNaught
Whitney, My Love
Whitney, My Love
Judith McNaught
A Kingdom of Dreams
A Kingdom of Dreams
Judith McNaught
Judith McNaught: 48 quotes1 like

Famous 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.”

Judith McNaught

Source: Paradise

“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.”

Judith McNaught

Source: Once and Always

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

Judith McNaught

Source: Paradise

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

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

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

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

Judith McNaught Quotes about love

“His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. “Love me, Elizabeth.”

Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. “I do.”

Judith McNaught

Source: Almost Heaven

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

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

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

Judith McNaught

Source: Once and Always

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

Judith McNaught

Source: Until You

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

Judith McNaught

Source: Perfect

Judith McNaught Quotes about heart

“You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality”

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

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

Judith McNaught

Source: Something Wonderful

“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.”

Judith McNaught

Source: Paradise

Judith McNaught Quotes

“You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.”

Judith McNaught

Variant: You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in, risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. And if you can't play, you can't win.
Source: Paradise

“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.”

Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams

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

Judith McNaught

Source: Something Wonderful

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

-Royce Westmoreland”

Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams

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

Judith McNaught

Source: Paradise

“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.”

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

“‎People who talk less frequently notice more.”

Judith McNaught

Source: Someone to Watch Over Me

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

-Royce Westmoreland”

Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams

“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.”

Judith McNaught

Source: Almost 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.”

Judith McNaught

Source: Perfect

“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.”

Judith McNaught

Source: Something Wonderful

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

Judith McNaught

Source: Paradise

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

Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams

“Reformed rakes often make the best husbands.”

Judith McNaught

Source: Something Wonderful

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

Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams

“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”

Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams

“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”

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

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

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

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

Judith McNaught

Source: Once and Always

“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?”

Judith McNaught

Source: Almost Heaven

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

-Clayton Westmoreland”

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

“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.”

Judith McNaught

Source: Something Wonderful

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

Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams

“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".”

Judith McNaught

Source: Paradise

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

Judith McNaught book A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams

“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.”

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

“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?”

Judith McNaught

“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.”

Judith McNaught

Source: Until You

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

Judith McNaught

Source: Double Standards

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