Julia Quinn citations

“She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else…”

“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”

“She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.”

“You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield”

“A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor - ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock.”

“It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.”

“Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.”

“There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she’d looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer.”

“James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?"
Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.”

“Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow.

-Lady Whistledown”

“To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.”

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

“Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.”

“She'd met Colin on a Monday.
She'd kissed him on a Friday.
Twelve years later.
She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.”

“Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, “Yes! Yes! I win!”

“You don’t win,” Anthony snapped.

“Oh, it feels like I’ve won,” she reveled.”

“You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one

-Henrietta Barett”

“And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.”

“I’m not certain you’d know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant.”
“I would think the elephant would be a fairly good indication that I ought to look elsewhere.”

“Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. "Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke."

Violet looked at Simon. "Do you want to have this conversation with my son?"

"Not particularly."

"Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet.”

“No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.”

“Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.”

“In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?"
"You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?”

“There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.”

“Sometimes Hen… I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.”

“Caroline, do you value your neck?"
"Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?"
"Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.”

“Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.”

“Do I look like a mess?” she asked.
He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered.”

“I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.”

“In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.”