Quotes from Julia Quinn

No one ever told you that when you became a parent, how much fun it was to watch them do the quietest things. Sleeping and thinking.

je peux supporter votre haine… mais certainement pas votre absence.

don't think any of us knows how we will react to a crisis until we are forced into one.

Despite his composed demeanor, despite all of his promises to Anthony, he burned for her.

While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she'd looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer.)

Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.

tu impaciencia siempre me ha parecido encantadora. Y no es porque siempre quisieras más, sino porque siempre lo querías todo.

con.tu.ber.nal (noun). One who occupies the same tent; a tent-fellow, comrade.

Better to live with the man she loved than to have children with one she didn't.

Pero no dejes que la impaciencia te defina —le dijo Violet, con dulzura—. Porque eres mucho más que eso. Eres mucho más que eso y a veces tengo la sensación de que lo olvidas —sonrió; la sonrisa afable de una madre que se despide de su hija—. Dale tiempo, Eloise. Sé paciente. No presiones demasiado.

And as for me, well, just say that I'm feeling a bit ill. My falling out with Alex will probably be the latest on-dit by then, and everyone will expect me to be thoroughly heartbroken.

The world would be a much happier place if people would just listen to me before they up and got married," she added. "I could have the entire Marriage Mart matched up in a week.

I don't wish to cry off," she said, even though she'd already shaken her head. Some things needed to be said aloud. "Then you will have to help him," Violet said. "With whatever it is that troubles him, it will be up to you to help him.

People always feared what they didn't understand.

Now' doesn't even compare to tomorrow. And tomorrow couldn't possibly compete with the next day. As perfect as I feel this very moment, tomorrow is going to be even better.

And put me down." James kept walking, his arm a vise under her ribs.

It seemed the worst sort of weakness—one with no apparent cause, and unfortunately, one with no clear cure.

It was bad enough that he'd kissed her. He didn't need to want to do it again.

If I do this, then that will happen, but if I do that, then this, this, and the other thing will happen, which will yield an entirely different result, which could mean that—

Do you think that there is a corner of this Earth that you could travel to far away enough to free me from this torment? I am a gentleman. My father raised me to act with honor, but that honor is hanging by a thread that grows more precarious with every moment I spend in your presence. You are the bane of my existence, and the object of all my desires.

There were worse fates than finding oneself married to an intelligent, entertaining woman whom one happened to lust after around the clock.

This sense of comfort, of easy companionship, of sitting next to someone in a carriage and knowing with every fiber of your being that it was where you belonged.

They say that a smart person learns from her mistakes," she interrupted, her voice forcefully ending his protest. "But a truly smart person learns from other people's mistakes." She pulled away, then turned to face him. "I'd like to think I'm a truly smart person. Please don't take that away from me.

tiny movements that spoke volumes and seemed to envelop them in a fine mist of Pretty.