Julia Quinn Quotes

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• A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.
• In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in…
• Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?
• Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious…
• Then it's settled," Harriet said. "We shall work out the smaller roles later.""What about you?" Elizabeth demanded."Oh, I'm going to be the goddess of the…
• He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig,…
• This is why I didn't get married last year," she said to him. "I wouldn't be here to nurse you." She thought about that for…
• No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.
• You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.
• I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.
• Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown
• He wondered if she'd mind if he threw her down on the blanket and tore off her clothing. (..) She looked heartbreakingly innocent. Alex sighed.…
• Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.
• Weakness never got anyone anywhere.
• In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.
• 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.
• Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little…
• Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.
• Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand.…
• Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?" For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic…

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