Quotes from Julia Quinn

You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke. Violet looked at Simon. Do you want to have this conversation with my son? Not particularly. Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet.

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

Mother," Hyacinth said, pausing for slightly longer than normal to steal a bit of time to organize her thoughts, "I am not going to chase after Mr. St. Clair. He's not at all the right sort of man for me." "I'm not certain you'd know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant." "I would think the elephant would be a fairly good indication that I ought to look elsewhere.

You have a mother?" He quirked a brow. "Did you think mine was some sort of divine birth? My father was a remarkable man, but even he was not that talented.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.

Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.

When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.

I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real at the same time. I don't know how she does it.

No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.

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.

Did you know I dream about your hair? I use to say it was the color of the sun at sunset, but I'm wrong. It's brighter than the sun, just as you are.

A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it's actually a pub.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

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

I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.

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?

I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.

In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.

It was funny, he reflected later, how one's life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it's simply ... not

He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart

There are moments in a woman's life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell.