Quotes by Julia Quinn

John shrugged. It always seemed silly to me to desire a woman who cannot converse any better than a sheep.Belle leaned forward, her eyes glittering mischievously. Really? I would have thought youd prefer such a woman,considering your difficulty with polite conversation.Touche, my lady. I cede this round to you.

He closed his eyes. The insides of his eyelids were a brownish black, not at all the same as the thick purple of the night. Darkness had so many colors. It was strange, that, and perhaps a little disquieting. But—―Oh!‖A foot slammed into his left calf, and he opened his eyes just in time to see a woman tumbling backward.Right onto his blanket.He smiled. The gods still loved him.

At present, however, with his aching head and queasy stomach, Sebastian was feeling exceedingly resistible. Or if not that, then resistant. Aphrodite herself could descend from the ceiling, floating on a bloody clamshell, naked but for a few well-placed flowers, and he‘d likely puke at her feet.No, no, she ought to be completely naked. If he was going to prove the existence of a goddess, right here in this room, she was damned well going to be naked.He‘d still puke on her feet, though.

Sebastian got up and walked to the window, resting his forehead against the pane. It was cold outside, and the icy chill pressed up against him through the glass. He liked the sensation. It was big. Grand. The sort of vivid moment that reminded him of his humanity. He was cold, therefore he must be alive. He was cold, therefore he must not be invincible. He was cold, thereforeHe stood back and let out a disgusted snort. He was cold, therefore he was cold. There wasn‘t really much more to it.

James started to laugh. His chin hurt where shed smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where shed stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if hed swum through a rosebush, which wasnt as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh.

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

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

“It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didnt they?”

“No one said we had to spend every waking moment together, he said, but at the end of the day-he leaned and kissed each of her eyebrows, in turn-an most of the time during, there is no one I would rather see, no one whose voice I would rather hear, and no one whose mind I would rather explore.”

“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.”

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

“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 dont know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say Well done Henry said in a tired voice.”

“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 didnt want to knock the image just out of his head. He wanted to send it clear across the room and out the window.”

“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 couldnt hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.”

“If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.”

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

“the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.”

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

“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.”