Judith McNaught citations

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

-Royce Westmoreland”

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

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

“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.”

“‎People who talk less frequently notice more.”

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

-Royce Westmoreland”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Reformed rakes often make the best husbands.”

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

“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”

“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”

“Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.”

“We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?”

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

“I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.”

“After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.”

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

“We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.”

“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.”

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