Quotes from Julia Quinn

This is none of your concern,' his uncle spat. 'I beg to differ,' Sebastian said quietly. 'A lady in distress is always my concern.

He needed her the way he needed air.

Dogs deserve proper names." "Cats, too?" "Cats are entirely different. They catch mice.

a dor de um coração partido nunca vai embora, apenas fica anestesiada.

I would like to request the honor of your daughter's hand in marriage". Olivia gasped, then squealed, then jumped up and down, which turned out to be a bad idea. "Ow!" she yelped smacking her head on the window. She poked her head back out and beamed down at Harry with tears in her eyes. "Oh Harry", she signed.

You are the reason I exist," she said softly, "the very reason I was born.

There is something about the heavens. In this world we live in where I am given so much power and attention, it is good to remember that I am but a bit of dust on a small dot in the universe.

She was the key to his health. She fed his happiness. She would be the making of him.

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.

We are women. And the men who hold our fates hardly conceive that we have desires and dreams of our own. If we are ever to live the lives we want, we have to make them conceive it. Our bravery, the force of our will, shall be their proof.

I desire the King's sanity as fervently as Your Majesty does." "I care not for his sanity. I care for his happiness. His soul. Let him be mad if mad is what he needs.

This was different. He didn't want a woman. He wanted her. And he supposed that if he had to spend the afternoon being strange, sad, and disfigured just to be in her company, it would be well worth it. Then he remembered the wart. He turned to Miss Wynter and said firmly, "I am not getting a wart." Really, a man had to draw the line somewhere.

Leaning forward, he set out to conquer Miss Henrietta Barrett the same way he'd conquered women across Britain. Simply by being himself.

Change what you can, he'd once told her, and accept what you can't.

The birth of Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset, Earl Clyvedon, was met with great celebration. Church bells rang for hours, champagne flowed freely through the gargantuan castle that the newborn would call home…

I shall freckle." "That doesn't bother me," he said with a shrug. "It bothers me!" "Don't worry. They'll be on your own face, so you won't have to see them." Ellie gaped at him, astounded by his illogic.

The eggs were extremely interesting, as was the bacon,and the hydrangeas outside the window were absolutely fascinating. hydrangeas.who would have imagined?

Today I glory in my sixdom." "Sixdom?" "Sixitude." Annabel started to grin. "Sixulation," Louisa proclaimed.

I must protest." "To whom?" That seemed to flummox him. "I don't know," he finally said. "But a protest must be lodged nonetheless." "I don't think the dog meant to shoot him," Iris demurred. "You mean the author does not make the canine's motivations clear?" Iris assumed a scrupulously even expression. "Even she lacks such talent.

The loss of hope versus the certainty of truth. It's not an easy judgment to make.

Una persona debería leer un libro porque este provoca algo en su corazón.

She should have been relieved that she did not do something she was sure to regret. But she wasn't. She wanted her regrets. She wanted them desperately. She wanted to do something she knew she should not, and she wanted to lie in bed at night letting the memory keep her warm.

I don't want you to feel grateful that I married you," he said. "But I do," she admitted. "Fine, then. Feel grateful." She drew back. "What?" "If you want to feel grateful, then feel grateful." She blinked. This was not what she'd expected him to say. Then he took her hand and raised it to his lips. "But I get to feel grateful too.

Dunford arrived a few minutes later and gave her an approving nod. "You look lovely, Henry." She smiled her thanks but decided not to put too much stock in his compliment. It sounded like the sort of thing he said automatically to any woman in his vicinity.