Judith McNaught citations

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“His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. “Love me, Elizabeth.”

Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. “I do.”

“Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?”

“Love can't be forced into existence,(…)It won't come simply because you will it to happen”

“God help him." He chortled. "He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it."
-Dr. Whitticomb”

“If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I
was nothing until you.”

“You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has."

-Clayton Westmoreland”

“The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.”

“How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it”

“Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".”

“Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.”

“God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped.
"God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first.”

“Which brings me to the question of why we always 'fall' in love. One falls down steps, off ladders, into rivers and down mountains. If love is so wonderful, why don't we soar in love or climb in love?”

“Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel.
Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart”

“You needn't worry about your appearance, my dear, because true beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.”

“Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.”

“What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits?"
"I turn you into a hand­some frog.”

“You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.”