Quotes from Julia Quinn

Love is blind," Harriet quipped. "But not illiterate," Elizabeth retorted.

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

He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent." "I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "But you seem to be the only one to believe me.

Hyacinth," Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, "do try to speak in complete sentences." Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. "Biscuits. Are. Good." She cocked her head to the side. "Noun. Verb. Adjective." "Hyacinth." "Noun. Verb. Adjective." Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. "Sentence. Is. Correct.

Tell me something wicked.

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

It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

He wondered if she'd mind if he threw her down on the blanket and tore off her clothing. (..) She looked heartbreakingly innocent. Alex sighed. She'd probably mind.

If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?

sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can't quite explain. Sometimes it's just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else.

But when Anthony kissed her, she felt as if she were losing her mind. And when he kissed her twice, she wasn't even sure if she wanted it back!

Francesca: It's still a bit cold yet. Michael: Never stopped John and me. Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen.

Why? It's because I love you, damn me to hell. Because I've always loved you. Because I loved you when you were with John, and I loved you when I was in India, and God only knows I don't deserve you, but I love you, anyway.

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn't just passion, and it wasn't wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir.

No. Haven't you been listening?" Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.

the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

And then there was Kate Sheffield. The bane of his existence. And the object of his desires. All at once.

Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.

And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks. Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first. —from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin

He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.

He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn't coexist in a world with one of Colin's smiles.

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