Until You Judith Mcnaught Quotes

#1. 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.

Judith McNaught

#2. 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.

Judith McNaught

#3. 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?

Judith McNaught

#4. 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?

Judith McNaught

#5. We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.

Judith McNaught

#6. People who talk less frequently notice more.

Judith McNaught

#7. Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?
-Royce Westmoreland

Judith McNaught

#8. Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux were at the height of their historical domination. Without those women, I wouldn't be a romance novelist.

Sarah MacLean

#9. Not even in my weakest moment have I considered letting you go.

Judith McNaught

#10. 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?

Judith McNaught

#11. I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

Judith McNaught

#12. I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.

Judith McNaught

#13. 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.

Judith McNaught

#14. Miss stone, I adore you.

Judith McNaught

#15. 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.

Judith McNaught

#16. 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

Judith McNaught

#17. A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

Judith McNaught

#18. Whitney, My Love is the story of Clayton Westmoreland, the Ninth Duke of Claymore. Until You features Stephen Westmoreland's

Judith McNaught

#19. 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.

Judith McNaught

#20. 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.

Judith McNaught

#21. Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.

Lauren Willig

#22. 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.

Judith McNaught

#23. 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.

Judith McNaught

#24. It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say.

Judith McNaught

#25. 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.

Judith McNaught

#26. If you aren't a living example of 'the devil quoting scripture.'

Judith McNaught

#27. 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.

Judith McNaught

#28. Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter.

Judith McNaught

#29. 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.

Judith McNaught

#30. Love and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

Judith McNaught

#31. She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.

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#32. Sweeping her up into her arms, Jenny hugged her tightly. "Everybody

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#33. 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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#34. 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.

Judith McNaught

#35. 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.

Judith McNaught

#36. If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I
was nothing until you.

Judith McNaught