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The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

Julia Quinn

On the Way to the Wedding

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The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

Julia Quinn

On the Way to the Wedding

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Famous Julia Quinn Quotes

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

Julia Quinn

Source: Ten Things I Love About 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…”

Julia Quinn

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

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

Julia Quinn

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

Julia Quinn book The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

Source: The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

“Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.”

Julia Quinn

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“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.”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

Julia Quinn Quotes about love

“If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?”

Julia Quinn

Source: To Sir Phillip, With Love

“If you want to know if a gentleman loves you,” her mother said, “there is only one true way to be sure.”
“It’s in his kiss,” her mother whispered. “It’s all there, in his kiss.”

Julia Quinn

Source: It's in His Kiss

“And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks.

Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first.

—from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin”

Julia Quinn

Source: When He Was Wicked

“… I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent
who would offer a child such latitude and understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter
friend. I do love you, dear Mama.”

Julia Quinn

Source: To Sir Phillip, With Love

“Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude,
“you know I love you dearly—”
“Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect
nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in
that manner?”

Julia Quinn

Source: It's in His Kiss

“I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.”

Julia Quinn

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

Julia Quinn

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

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

Julia Quinn

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton: The Epilogue II

“There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she’d looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer.”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After

Julia Quinn Quotes

“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

Source: How to Marry a Marquis

“Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow.

-Lady Whistledown”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Duke and I

“To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Duke and I

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

Julia Quinn

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

“She'd met Colin on a Monday.
She'd kissed him on a Friday.
Twelve years later.
She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.”

Julia Quinn

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“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

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

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

-Henrietta Barett”

Julia Quinn

Source: Minx

“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.”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Duke and I

“I’m not certain you’d know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant.”
“I would think the elephant would be a fairly good indication that I ought to look elsewhere.”

Julia Quinn

Source: It's in His Kiss

“Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. "Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke."

Violet looked at Simon. "Do you want to have this conversation with my son?"

"Not particularly."

"Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet.”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Duke and I

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

Julia Quinn

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

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

Julia Quinn

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

“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?”

Julia Quinn

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

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

Julia Quinn

Source: The Duke and I

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

Julia Quinn

Source: Minx

“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.”

Julia Quinn

Source: To Catch an Heiress

“Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.”

Julia Quinn

Source: To Sir Phillip, With Love

“Do I look like a mess?” she asked.
He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered.”

Julia Quinn

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

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

Julia Quinn

Source: An Offer From a Gentleman

“My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband.

-Penelope Featherington”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

“Love is blind,” Harriet quipped.

“But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.”

Julia Quinn

Source: A Night Like This

“He wondered if she'd mind if he threw her down on the blanket and tore off her clothing. (..) She looked heartbreakingly innocent. Alex sighed. She'd probably mind.”

Julia Quinn

Source: Splendid

“She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.”

Julia Quinn

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“Weakness never got anyone anywhere.”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

“Tell me something wicked.”

Julia Quinn

Source: When He Was Wicked

“No. Haven’t you been listening?”

Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.”

Julia Quinn

Source: Just Like Heaven

“Francesca: It's still a bit cold yet.
Michael: Never stopped John and me.
Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen.”

Julia Quinn

Source: When He Was Wicked

“A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic… or more utterly moronic?”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Duke and I

“I also think he is given to disguises… Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside.”

Julia Quinn

Source: What Happens in London

“He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent."
"I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "But you seem to be the only one to believe me.”

Julia Quinn

Source: To Sir Phillip, With Love

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

Julia Quinn

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

“Olivia: You didn't even know I was there!
Harry: Excuse me, yes I did.”

Julia Quinn

Source: What Happens in London

“He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn't coexist in a world with one of Colin's smiles.”

Julia Quinn

“It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider.”

Julia Quinn

Source: When He Was Wicked

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

Julia Quinn

Source: To Catch an Heiress

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

Julia Quinn

Source: The Lost Duke of Wyndham

“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

Source: Splendid

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir.”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Duke and I

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

Julia Quinn

Source: The Lost Duke of Wyndham

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

Julia Quinn

“When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”

Julia Quinn

Source: What Happens in London

“And for the rest of the night, he couldn’t quite forget the smell of her perfume. Or maybe it was the soft sound of her chuckle. Or maybe it was neither of those things. Maybe it was just her.”

Julia Quinn

Source: It's in His Kiss

“Why? It’s because I love you, damn me to hell. Because I’ve always loved you. Because I loved you when you were with John, and I loved you when I was in India, and God only knows I don’t deserve you, but I love you, anyway.”

Julia Quinn

Source: When He Was Wicked

“the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

“He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

“Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam… no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.”

Julia Quinn

Source: To Catch an Heiress

“This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion,
and it wasn’t wicked.
It was love, and it was divine.”

Julia Quinn

Source: When He Was Wicked

“Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.”

Julia Quinn

Source: The Duke and I

“You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile."
"You think my smile is beguiling?”

Julia Quinn

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

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