Top 100 Julia Quinn Quotes
#1. What happened?'
'He humiliated me.'
'Oh, my Lord, Belle. He didn't ... '
'No. But I wish I had. Then he'd have to marry me, and I-'
'Belle, you don't know what you're saying.'
'I know exactly what I'm saying! Why is it that no one can credit me with the ability to know my own mind?
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#2. She'd worn that color, or gray in its place, for three years now. And unrelenting black for a year before that. It had been a bit of a badge, she realized, a uniform of sorts. One never had to worry about who one was when one's clothing proclaimed it so loudly.
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#3. He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles.
Well, no, in truth she loved them.
Provided, of course, that she solved them.
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#4. Francesca couldn't say anything, because that would just make her mother feel even worse, and so
instead they stood there as they always did, thinking the same thing but never speaking of it, wondering
which of them hurt more.
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#6. It wasn't one of my favorite boots, Marcus said, trying to cheer Miss Royle up. She looked as if someone had decapitated a puppy.
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#7. I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done' Henry said in a tired voice.
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#8. He had never expected a title, never expected lands of his own or a household to go with them. His father had been a younger son of a younger son; God only knew how many Dunfords had had to die to put him in line for this inheritance.
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#9. Good choice dancing with this one...I've always liked her. More brains than the rest of her family put together. ~ Lady Danbury to Colin Bridgerton
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#10. I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.
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#11. Your plan isn't going to work."
He was all innocence. "I have a plan?"
"Oh, please," she scoffed. "You're going to try to wear me down in hopes that eventually I'll give in."
"I would never dream of it."
"I'm sure you dream of quite a bit more," she muttered.
-Sophie & Benedict
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#12. Children," Lady Bridgerton said with a sigh as she retook her seat. "I am never quite certain if I'm glad I had them.
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#13. Oh, go ahead and giggle," Lady Danbury sighed. "I've found that the only way to avoid parental frustration is to view him as a source of amusement.
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#14. He did things to her, she realized. Strange, shivery things that left her breathless. He need only to look at her - not in his usual, conversational way, but to really look at her, to let his eyes settle on hers, deeply blue and insightful, and she felt naked, her soul bared.
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#15. Mother, I spoke to the duke. He understands that this is not a formal meal. And he specifically told me that he was looking forward to a change of pace. He has no family himself, so he has never experienced anything like a Bridgerton family dinner." "God help us." Violet's face went utterly pale.
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#16. It is really quite remarkable," Sarah said, "that the two of you
are sisters."
"I marvel at it every day," Iris said flatly.
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#17. I should thank you', she said.
His lips stilled, and she felt him smile against his skin. 'For what?'
'Everything, really. But mostly for being you
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#18. I believe I told you I am utterly serious. I never lie."
"Now that is a clanker if ever I heard one." she retorted.
"Well, then, I never lie about anything important."
Her hands found their way to her hips and she let out a loud, "Harumph.
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#19. Turner let his face fell into his hands. "I'm never going to touch her again", he moaned.
"He's never going to touch me again!" they heard Miranda roar.
"Well,it doesn't look like you'll have much argument from your wife on that point", Olivia chirped.
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#20. Love your siblings. Love them well,
for they are your blood, and when you are unsure,or times are difficult, they will be the ones to stand by your side.
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#21. Colin leaned forward. I really did not want to leave my wife.
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#22. We cannot accept this sort of money from a stranger.'
'Maybe it's not a stranger,' Susan said.
'Then that's even worse!' Elizabeth retorted. 'My God, can you imagine? Some horrid person treating us like puppets, pulling our strings, thinking he can control our destiny?
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#23. The trip to Ireland ... ' her father was saying.
'Is to determine his legitimacy,' Wyndham confirmed. And then, with a morbidly jolly expression, he continued, 'It's going to be quite a party. Even my grandmother is going.
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#24. Do you live here?" Sophie asked dryly.
"No," he said, plopping down into the chair next to her, "although my mother is constantly telling me to make myself right at home.
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#25. 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. Penelope,
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#26. This kiss . . . I wish for it with a fervor that shakes my soul. I have no idea why I wish it, only that I felt it the moment I saw you at the piano, and it has only intensified in the days since. She
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#27. That's all he said?' Mrs. Royle demanded.
'He's not one for lengthy explanations,' Honoria said.
'Powerful men do not explain their actions,' Cecily announced dramatically.
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#28. You'll marry the earl and carry on with the nephew on the side."
"Grandmother!
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#29. How many great mysteries are there in life, really?" No one answered, so Colin guessed, "Forty-two?" She
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#30. Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, "Yes! Yes! I win!"
"You don't win," Anthony snapped.
"Oh, it feels like I've won," she reveled.
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#31. Jack stopped cold. Where had THAT come from?
From your conscience, a niggling little voice - probably his conscience - told him.
Damn. He really needed to get a better night's sleep. His conscience was never this loud.
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#32. I'm leaving!" she said, with, in her opinion, great drama and resolve.
But he just answered her with a sly half smile, and said, "I'm following."
And the bloody man remained two strides behind her the entire way home.
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#33. You don't have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one.
-Henrietta Barrett, (Minx, Splendid Trilogy book #3)
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#34. In his heart, she'd been smiling for him.
But now she was smiling at Colin Bridgerton, he of the famous charm and sparkling green eyes.
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#35. To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.
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#36. Some had had to suffer through a few daughters before siring a precious son,
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#37. You married into the family. You have to love me. It's a contractual obligation.
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#38. This thing between them, this bond - it wasn't just passion,
and it wasn't wicked.
It was love, and it was divine.
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#39. Standing still is always more tiring than walking
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#40. Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.
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#41. When you walk into a room," he said softly, "the air changes.
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#42. Are you certain you'll be happy?" she asked.
Eloise smiled ruefully. "It's a little late to wonder, don't you think?"
"It might be too late to do anything about it, but it's never too late to wonder.
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#43. Annabel stared at the door, then turned to Sebastian, feeling quite dazed. "I think my grandmother may have just given me permission to ruin myself."
"I'll do all the ruining tonight," he said with a grin. "If you don't mind.
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#44. Oh, Elizabeth," he murmured, leaning down to press a gentle kiss on her mouth, "I love you so much. You must believe me."
"I believe you," she said softly, "because in your eyes, I see what I feel in my heart.
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#45. He was trying not to grin, but it was exceedingly difficult with Lady Penwood gasping like a fish on land.
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#46. No. Haven't you been listening?
Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.
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#47. He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over each other like an endlessly edited story.
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#48. She decided to watch the leaves on the tree across the way. How many would fall off in such a strong wind? ... She now knew why people made such a fuss about weddings. It was to keep the bride's mind occupied, lest she fall into strange mental chasms.
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#49. I simply refuse to deal with idiots ... It has cut my social obligations in half.
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#50. Just her and the great outdoors. Gwendolyn Margaret Passmore and a million blades of grass.
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#51. It's far easier to shut yourself off from people than to love them. If you keep your heart surrounded by strong walls, no one can get close enough to you to break it.
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#52. A man only got one shot at declaring himself to his true love; he didn't want to muck it up completely.
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#53. He poured himself a glass of whiskey. And another. And another. Not enough to get stinking drunk, just enough to make him overly contemplative.
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#54. Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.
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#55. Caroline Trent hadn't meant to shoot Percival Prewitt, but she had, and now he was dead.
Or at least she thought he was dead.
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#56. You make me sound like some kind of heartless ice princess.'
'No, of course not, Belle. I must admit, you have always been uncommonly nice to every pimply-faced boy who has ever asked you to dance.'
'Thank you. I think.'
'It's probably why so many pimply-faced boys ask you to dance.
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#57. Ah, Valentine's Day. This Author personally detests the holiday. A girl must take the measure of her worth by the number of cards and bouquets she receives, and a young man is forced to spew poetry as if anyone actually spoke in rhyme. It's a wonder the holiday hasn't been
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#58. the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.
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#60. My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband.
-Penelope Featherington
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#61. Places I Would Rather Be, Edition 1821
By Lady Olivia Bevelstoke
France
With Miranda
With Miranda in France
In bed with a cup of chocolate and a newspaper
Anywhere with a cup of chocolate and a newspaper
Anywhere with either with a cup of chocolate or a newspaper
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#62. I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.
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#63. Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will follow. And didn't you say you wished to be married?'
'Not to someone who follows you as the lead sheep.
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#64. When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.
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#65. I believe I may kill you before the season is out, Sarah
remarked in much the same tone she used when saying, I believe I
shall have lemonade instead of tea.
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#66. All I meant to say is that a rake's humor has its basis in cruelty. He needs a victim, for he cannot imagine ever laughing at himself. You, your grace, are rather clever with the self-deprecating remark.
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#67. Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient.
The answers will
come to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all the
while.
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#68. I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.
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#69. He was discovering that may be there was more him than his name. And may be, when all was said and done, he'd still be whole.
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#70. I am beggining to realise," Alex murmured, "why people always hope for sons. It has nothing to do with producing an heir."
"That was unkind," Octavia said, not sounding the least bit insulted.
"Females are a prodigious amount of work.
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#71. It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.
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#72. I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
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#73. Lucy nodded dutifully, all the while making a mental list of all the places she would rather be. Paris, Venice, Greece, although weren't they at war? No matter. She would still rather be in Greece.
(On the Way to the Wedding, Bridgertons #8, by Julia Quinn)
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#74. Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.
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#75. I knew nothing but love and devotion when I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier.
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#76. The way he had always tried to tell her he loved her when she least expected it.
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#77. Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?
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#78. He rolled his eyes. Why was he surprised about anything having to do with her? Of course she'd be able to lift a large stone. She was Henry. She could probably lift him.
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#79. You are a Bridgerton. I don't care who you marry or what your name becomes when you stand up before a priest and say your vows. You will always be a Bridgerton, and we behave with honor and honesty, not because it is expected of us, but because that is what we are. Eloise
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#80. Sometimes ... " Anthony said in a halting voice, "sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can't quite explain. Sometimes it's just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else."
-Anthony to Kate
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#81. That was very rude of me."
"Think nothing of it. You've done worse.
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#82. I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.
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#83. Love is blind," Harriet quipped.
"But not illiterate," Elizabeth retorted.
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#84. The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose
only aim is to
see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors
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#85. She looked down at her sketch pad. She'd been drawing a rabbit. She decided to give him unpleasant teeth. Vicious little bunny. Excellent.
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#86. Something important is always about to happen ... And if not, you'd do well to act as if it were. You'll enjoy life better that way.
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#88. Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.
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#89. What are you doing here?"Lady Vickers asked, turning her frosty glare to Sebastian.
"Exactly what you think, my lady," he said.
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#90. And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.
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#91. To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.
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#92. She was swaying slightly from side to side, and he could see her shoulders rise and fall with each shuddering breath.
He knew that sort of breath. It was the one you drew when you were trying so hard to keep your feelings inside, but you just weren't strong enough.
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#93. Have you found the milk," he asked, "or must I venture out in search of a cow?
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#94. As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. "Don't," he said, barely recognizing his own voice. Her eyes met his, and he said, "I'll be your blanket".
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#95. He leaned down and whispered, "I love you," in Honoria's ear.
Just because he wanted to.
She didn't look up, but she smiled.
And he smiled, too
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#96. Anne strove for honesty whenever possible, probably because it so often wasn't possible.
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#97. The gentleman had been an uncommonly affable fellow, but every time he counted to twenty (and he seemed to do so with strange frequency), he skipped the number twelve.
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#98. Nonetheless, I can't help but be flattered that you noticed the latest addition to my collection," he said.
She rolled her eyes. "Because personal injuries are such a dignified thing to collect."
"Are all governesses so sarcastic?
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#99. It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one's true love.
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#100. There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.
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