Lauren Willig Quotes

Lauren Willig is a New York Times bestselling author of historical novels. Her books follow a collection of Napoleonic-Era British spies, similar to the Scarlet Pimpernel as they fight for Britain and fall in love.

✵ 28. March 1977

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Famous Lauren Willig Quotes

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

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.”

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

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.”

Source: The Deception of the Emerald Ring

“Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.”

The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

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