Quotes by Julia Quinn

Loves 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 shes simply the best person youve ever known.

I love you with everything I am, everything Ive 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 well have and for the years well have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.

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.

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

You have to live each hour as if its your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield

You dont always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

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 wasnt a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.

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

His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in words. He loved her.He worshipped her. Hed walk across fire for her. He——still had the audience of her three brothers.Slowly breaking the kiss, he turned his face to the side. Anthony, Benedict, and Colin were still standing in the foyer.Anthony was studying the ceiling, Benedict was pretending to inspect his fingernails, and Colin was staring quite shamelessly.

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

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

He gave her a sly, sideways look. Did youbring it?My list? Heavens, no. What can you be thinking?His smile widened. I brought mine.Daphne gasped. You didnt!I did. Just to torture Mother. Im going peruse it right in front of her, pull out my quizzing glass—You dont have a quizzing glass.He grinned—the slow, devastatingly wicked smile that all Bridgerton males seemed to possess. I bought one just for this occasion.Anthony, you absolutely cannot. She will kill you. And then, somehow, shell find a way to blame me.Im counting on it.

And if you say thats because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, Im disowning all three of you.

Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron,” Sebastian said approvingly. “Excellent choice.”“You have read this?” Alexei asked.“It’s not as good as Miss Davenport and the Dark Marquis, of course, but worlds better than Miss Sainsbury and the Mysterious Colonel.”Harry found himself rendered speechless.“I’m reading Miss Truesdale and the Silent Gentleman right now.”“Silent?” Harry echoed.“There is a noticeable lack of dialogue,” Sebastian confirmed.

You always get more respect when you dont have a happy ending.

I cant imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.”“What?” she demanded.He shrugged. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

He murmured her name, tenderly taking her face in his hands. “I love you,” he said, his voice low and fervent. “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.” He bent forward and kissed her, once, softly, on the lips. “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.

Felicity, Mrs. Featherington interurupted, why dont you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?For the life of him, Colin couldnt imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipas watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, And how are your watercolors?But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, I imagine theyre fine, thank you.

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