Top 97 Judith McNaught Quotes
#1. Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter.
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#2. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.
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#3. Royce's eyes narrowed in discouragement at the thoght of having to sing to jenny. his deep bariton voice would surely bring every hound for miles to yap and nip at his heels.
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#4. Maybe I ought to do exactly what I told Nick I was going to do and pursue you myself."
Lauren smiled. "I have a feeling you're as jaded and cynical as he is." He looked so stung that she added teasingly, "Well,you are-but still very attractive,for all that."
"Thanks," he said dryly.
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#5. It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say.
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#6. Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you."
"I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin.
"And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.
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#7. If you aren't a living example of 'the devil quoting scripture.'
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#8. In the middle of his rapid-fire dictatioin he said softly, without pausing, "When the sun is on your hair, it shines like spun gold," and launched back into his letter. Lauren, who had inadvertently taken half of the compliment down in shorthand, gave him a killing glance, and he chuckled.
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#9. The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.
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#10. The old adage which says that it is 'whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.
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#11. Love and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.
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#12. She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.
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#13. Sweeping her up into her arms, Jenny hugged her tightly. "Everybody
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#14. she'd only looked at him for a second before she'd walked out of the woods, Jenny had registered the odd light in his eyes and
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#15. Have you stopped the trial?" the duchess said.
"Stopped the trial!" he expostulated. "My dear duchess, it would take the prince or God to stop this trial."
"They will have to settle for Lady Thornton," the dowager snapped.
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#16. His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. "Love me, Elizabeth."
Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. "I do.
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#17. If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I
was nothing until you.
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#18. Which brings me to the question of why we always 'fall' in love. One falls down steps, off ladders, into rivers and down mountains. If love is so wonderful, why don't we soar in love or climb in love?
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#19. Because," he said quietly as she stood up, "until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden."
Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. "What is it now?"
"Heaven.
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#20. Lisa, have you ever met anyone and then known within minutes that he's the most special person you're ever going to meet in your life?
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#21. Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?
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#22. We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.
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#24. Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?
-Royce Westmoreland
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#25. Not even in my weakest moment have I considered letting you go.
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#26. God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped.
"God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife
if I don't murder you first.
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#27. I want more from life than that and I have more to give.
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#28. I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.
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#29. Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame ... For the first time, a glint of humor touched Ramon Galverra's finely sculpted mouth and arrogant dark eyes.
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#31. I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.
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#32. Dying over an argument isn't honor, it's a waste of a man's life. A man volunteers to die for a cause he believes in, or to protect others he cares about. Any other reason is nothing more than stupidity." ~Ian Thornton
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#33. A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.
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#34. Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face, he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.
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#35. It was a kingdom of dreams - a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.
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#36. Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find that our dreams and memories quiet surpassed reality.
-Lady Anne, Whitney's aunt
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#37. I think," Nick snarled, "that the stupid bastard isn't smart enough to win a poker hand with a deck of marked cards.
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#38. An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. What is mine, I intend to
keep.
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#39. Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel.
Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart
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#40. How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it
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#41. Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible.
I don't know how some people are able to
disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that.
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#42. Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.
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#43. You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!"
"And you, my dear," Royce imperturbably replied, "are a bitch." With that, he
turned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be wed.
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#44. To accomplish that, I created Victoria Seaton, a young American who was
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#45. Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she
bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!"
-Royce Westmoreland
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#46. After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.
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#48. Now that you've had other men to use as a basis for comparison,how do I rate?" he teased.
"That's an adolescent question," Lauren retorted scornfully.
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#49. Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are.
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#50. Having already had one glorious marriage, perhaps I ought to count myself lucky and stop while I'm ahead.
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#51. Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them.
-Royce Westmoreland
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#52. Consider what an amoral, unprincipled cynicI am-think of all the improvements you could make to my character.
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#53. Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.
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#54. Let me go."
"I can't", he said hoarsely, ( ... )" I've tried a hundred times to let you go, Victoria, but I can't.
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#55. Courage was an admirable trait in a man. In a woman, he decided, it was a pain in the ass.
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#56. True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
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#57. Love can't be forced into existence,( ... )It won't come simply because you will it to happen
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#58. We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?
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#59. Matt: I know you can cook. Meredith: What makes you so sure? Matt: Because less than an hour ago, you set me on fire.
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#61. You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality
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#62. Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness."
"May I ask for a specific example?"
"Fat priests," Royce replied, "with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.
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#63. Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".
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#64. The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.
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#65. A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.
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#66. I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.
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#67. heart she faced the wrenching truth: Impulsiveness and recklessness, her two greatest faults, had brought her to this dire end - the same two character flaws that had
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#68. You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has. -Clayton Westmoreland
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#69. It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.
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#70. You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.
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#71. Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
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#72. God help him." He chortled. "He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it."
-Dr. Whitticomb
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#73. How am I doing so far?" she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice.
"You're doing very well," Nick's lazy voice mocked. "I'm half convinced that I'm invisible.
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#74. Whitney, My Love is the story of Clayton Westmoreland, the Ninth Duke of Claymore. Until You features Stephen Westmoreland's
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#76. Love was a desperate thing, fierce and ferocious, capable of consuming a man like invisible fire
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#78. Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.
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#79. Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery
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#81. You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win.
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#82. I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.
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#83. But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.
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#84. No longer was she an heiress from another world; she was the woman he had wanted to possess the moment he saw her, and she was sitting beside him, her hair cascading over his arm like a thick satin waterfall
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#85. To have him look at her as if she was a piece of office equipment whose presence offended him but whom he was obliged out of neccessity to have nearby.
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#86. In fact, the only rash, ill-advised thing of any import he'd done in recent years was his behavior the weekend he'd met Elizabeth Cameron.
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#88. Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. "What is the most beautiful place you've ever seen?"
Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. "Any place," he said huskily, "where you are.
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#89. I used to be ashamed
And now I am proud.
The world once was black
And now it is bright.
I used to walk head bent
And now I stand up tall.
I used to have dreams
But now I have hope.
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#92. ...I can't sleep, because I'm afraid I'll start dreaming...
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#93. In one of her more philosophical moments, she decided that the reason virginity was so prized for a bride was because early man must have realized that a bride who knew what was in store for her on her wedding night, would not be smiling quite so radiantly when she walked down that aisle!
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#95. Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.
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#96. You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all. - Matthew Farrell
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#97. Elizabeth, if you want to be kissed, all you have to do is put your lips on mine.
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