“Because that’s what happened to fury when tenderness was applied. It dissolved.” — Julie Anne Long Fury Copy Share Image
“We think we’re so clever. And yet we’re always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.” — Julie Anne Long Clever Copy Share Image
“It’s just a part of her life. Sewing her world back together again, sometimes even daily.” — Julie Anne Long Just Copy Share Image
“Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense.” — Julie Anne Long Directness Copy Share Image
“Some of us walk about with the burden of old wounds. What must it be like to have the burden of…healing?” — Julie Anne Long Healing Copy Share Image
“I will die, however,” he said quite seriously, “if you leave me again. Just watch me.” — Julie Anne Long Die Copy Share Image
“We all have foibles, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And the beholder oftentimes gets it wrong.” — Julie Anne Long Beauty Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the only way out of the fire is through the fire, m’boy.” — Julie Anne Long Fire Copy Share Image
“Poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a… — Julie Anne Long Emotions Copy Share Image
“Vicars, he often thought, are essentially God’s lawyers on the earth. Interpreters of the law, the finders of nuance, sifters through rationalizations… — Julie Anne Long Lawyer Copy Share Image
“imagine the ton would leap from London Bridge if the marquess did it first. Mind you, he’d land on a cart carrying… — Julie Anne Long London Bridge Copy Share Image
“He stared in something like disbelief. He'd seen a man convulse after being struck by a bolt of lighting once. Watching the… — Julie Anne Long Like Disbelief Copy Share Image
“How had she ever thought his blue eyes placid as a lake? But there was untold power in any water: to buoy,… — Julie Anne Long Blue eyes Copy Share Image
“Oh, my goodness, Lord Dryden. You should have seen your face when you said the word work. It’s not counted among the… — Julie Anne Long Deadly sins Copy Share Image
“Charm, my dear, Cynthia wanted to tell her, is not learned, it is innate. And it is honed by desperation and need… — Julie Anne Long Wanted Tell Copy Share Image
“the sympathy calls had been shot through with a subtle, yet unmistakably morbid glee. The queen had at last been nudged from… — Julie Anne Long Sympathy Copy Share Image
“He was a relentlessly cheerful presence, talked only of himself but so good-naturedly that she indulged him. He certainly laughed a good… — Julie Anne Long End of the world Copy Share Image
“It’s…” She couldn’t finish. “Don’t try, Miss Redmond,” he agreed, shading his eyes. “There are honestly no suitable words, so we shall… — Julie Anne Long Feel Copy Share Image
“Well, it’s not as though he cannot help it, you see. The…saving of things. I suspect it’s Captain Flint’s way of telling… — Julie Anne Long Save Copy Share Image
“Jules could have sworn there was a devilish glint in the shopkeepers eye. 'I find today I am in need of a… — Julie Anne Long Gaze Copy Share Image
“I don't know,' he said irritably. 'Is it meant to improve you?' She swiveled toward him, eyes wide with shock. 'Because nothing… — Julie Anne Long Dear god Copy Share Image
“I know what you think of me, Miles. I know what you--have thought of me. But I have a heart. I do… — Julie Anne Long Heart Choose Copy Share Image
“Which was why he reflexively turned when a flash of iridescence caught his eye. His first thought was: Morpho rhetenor Helena. The… — Julie Anne Long Butterfly Copy Share Image
“He began to stand, and saw Lyon stiffen, poised to do whatever he needed to do. He, like Lyon, could throw himself… — Julie Anne Long Dear lord Copy Share Image
“Your armpit is very handsome." This made him laugh. "Only an artist would think an armpit is handsome." "But it is ...… — Julie Anne Long Gaze Copy Share Image
“ “I’ve . . .” he began. He could have completed that any number of ways: “. . . botched everything.” “.… — Julie Anne Long Kissed Copy Share Image
“He had one of those chins what…” One of the innkeeper’s hands went up to squeeze his chin into two little folds.… — Julie Anne Long Chin Copy Share Image
“I love you," she murmured. The words ... it was as though an entire sun had exploded in his chest. He'd been… — Julie Anne Long Historical-romance Copy Share Image
“She wouldn't look up at him, wouldn't take her hands from her eyes; she didn't want him to see her. So he… — Julie Anne Long Evil Copy Share Image
“Let’s say then you’ve made the decision to tear the life you know asunder in order to be with this person you… — Julie Anne Long Life Copy Share Image
“He’d meant to take her apart with a kiss. How, then, did he wind up in pieces?” — Julie Anne Long Meant Copy Share Image
“One could tolerate an acid tongue for a time when the owner of it was so very pretty.” — Julie Anne Long Time Copy Share Image
“How, she had no idea. She seldom considered the “how” of things.” — Julie Anne Long Heart Copy Share Image
“Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy… — Julie Anne Long Men Copy Share Image
“Even cliffs are vulnerable, Captain Eversea, she thought. The sea gets at them, eventually, reshaping them inexorably, giving them no choice at… — Julie Anne Long Cliffs Copy Share Image
“the brightening he detected in the room around him might just be the whites of dozens of eyes as they widened [upon… — Julie Anne Long Eyes Widened Copy Share Image
“Beautiful. Jules once thought he’d understood what the word meant. He now believed it overused. Some word needed to be kept in… — Julie Anne Long Meant Copy Share Image
“Oh, God. She’d now have to invent a bawdy verse on the spot. She’d never had to improvise so much in her… — Julie Anne Long Entire life Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when… — Julie Anne Long Childish things Copy Share Image
“she had lately come to understand injustice and tricks of fate, and how they could turn you into someone else completely, maybe… — Julie Anne Long Fate Copy Share Image