Julia Quinn Quotes

It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him.

His heart had been right. There was only one.

Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.

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

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.

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.

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

Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.

I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.

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

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

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

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

And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way....
....His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds.

Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.

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 butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

He loved her.
He wanted her.
He needed her.
And he needed her now.

Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.

He smacked the heel of his hand against his forhead, as if that could knock the mental picture out of his head. Hell, he though irritably, he didn't want to knock the image just out of his head. He wanted to send it clear across the room and out the window.