Quotes from Jude Deveraux

I've come to realize that life is what you make it.

I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

Time has no meaning, Love will endure..

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.

It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?

Modern women had their own self-made guilt to make them miserable, but the sixteenth-century people had diseases, their fear of the unknown, their ignorance of medicine, and constant and ever-present death to haunt them.

You cannot blame all women for the faults of one.

Once upon a time... ...as a fair maiden lay weeping upon a cold tombstone, her heartfelt desire was suddenly made real before her: tall, broad of shoulder, attired in gleaming silver and gold, her knight in shining armor had come to rescue his damsel in distress....

Had I access to what is mine, I would shower you with jewels.

She looked like what all women wanted to grow up to look like:

Do you think I want to spend my life with a man who could so easily abandon his own child? What if we did go west and had a child? If you saw some sweet young thing, maybe you'd run off with her and leave our child.

I wanted everything and thought it would be given to me if I asked for it. I think I was too weak to take any kind of hardship.

Still smiling she carried the TV through the doorway; then she gave it the strongest heave she could manage... When it hit Alan's oversized brick barbecue and the glass front of the TV smashed, Leslie didn't think she'd ever heard a more satisfying sound.

You are an impertinent wench! Do you not know the Black Lion eats three girls such as you each day afore dinner?" Oblivious to the staring people around them, she put a finger on his lower lip. "I do not find that a horrible way to die at all," she said gently.

He is a man, no more. We will offer what we have, and he must be content.

After a few dates, he'd propose marriage over a bottle of wine.

but Robert was so much better than any of the other men Dougless had dated that she forgave him his little quirks—most

Dougless gritted her teeth.

Mother Theresa once said that what hurt people more than poverty or illness was feeling that they weren't needed.

for the most part people do not like to learn. They like to know adn they like to tell others what they know, but they do not like the process of learning...

Real love is not the pretty stuff of the jongleurs. It is a feeling inside that you are one with this man, no matter what he is. Were Travers to sell his soul to the Devil, I would still love him and mayhaps I would bargain for a good price myself.

I was a fool to get involved with you in the first place. And you were a bigger fool for coming after me.