Lauren Willig Quotes

“Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.”

Lauren Willig

Source: The Masque of the Black Tulip

“Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.”

Lauren Willig

“Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.”

Lauren Willig

Source: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

“There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.”

Lauren Willig

Source: The Deception of the Emerald Ring

“Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.”

Lauren Willig

The Seduction of the Crimson Rose