Julia Quinn: Quotes about love

Julia Quinn is American novelist. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Julia Quinn: 184 quotes15 likes

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

“Love is blind,” Harriet quipped.

“But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.”

Source: A Night Like This

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

Source: To Sir Phillip, With Love

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

“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.”

Source: When He Was Wicked

“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.”

Source: It's in His Kiss

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

Source: When He Was Wicked

“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?”

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”

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.”

Source: To Sir Phillip, With Love

“He loved her.
He wanted her.
He needed her.
And he needed her now.”

Source: Just Like Heaven