Quotes from Julia Quinn

He knew well the singularly strange sensation of loving one's family to distraction, and yet not feeling quite able to share one's deepest and most intractable fears. It brought on an uncanny sense of isolation, of being remarkably alone in a loud and loving crowd. -Anthony's thoughts

Everyone told me I was too old, that to be truly good at it I had to have started as a child. But that's not the point, really. I don't need to be truly good. I just need to enjoy it for myself. And I need to know I tried.

Only because Gregory put a toad in my bed last night," Daphne bit off, "and Benedict's standing has never recovered from the time he beheaded my favorite doll.

It really is more difficult when you're older. You're blessed because you had the chance to know them, but the pain of the loss is more intense.

People never talked to me," she snapped. "Half the time they didn't even know I was there. How do you think I was able to keep up the ruse for so long in the first place? I was invisible, Colin. No one saw me, no one talked to me. I just stood and listened, and no one noticed.

Kate immediately felt like a worm.

You're a lot like Anthony, did you know that?

For Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset would not spend his life as Earl Clyvedon. That was a mere courtesy title. Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset—the baby who possessed more names than any baby could possibly need—was the heir to one of England's oldest and richest dukedoms. And his father, the ninth Duke of Hastings, had waited years for this moment

Unmarried Lady Sorts of Things By Lady Olivia Bevelstoke, Unmarried Lady Wear pastel colors (and be quite glad if you possess the correct complexion for such hues). Smile and keep your opinions to yourself (with whatever success you are able). Do what your parents tell you to do. Accept the consequences when you don't. Find a husband who won't bother to tell you what to do.

Oh, Hugh?" He turned to see her smiling like a cat with cream. "Yes, my love?" "I said I didn't need a ring." He quirked a brow. "I do." She wiggled her fingers. "Need a ring. Just so you know." He threw back his head and laughed.

at sixes and sevens

And besides that," her mother continued, "gentlemen find pleasure in the act that ladies do not." She cleared her throat uncomfortably. "Depending on your husband's appetites—" "Appetites?" There would be food?

He took her hands and brought them to his lips, gently kissing each one in turn. ''Then we shall begin right now'', he vowed. ''And tomorrow you shall be transformed''. ''Tonight I am transformed'', she wishpered. ''Tomorrow I shall disappear.

He loved her. He didn't know how it had happened, only that it was true. It wasn't just that she was convenient. There had been lots of convenient women. Sophie was different. She made him laugh. She made him want to make her laugh. And when he was with her

Once Spencer was safely out of the shop, John yanked her around to face him and said, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?' Before she had a chance to answer him, Alex showed up at his side, grabbed Emma similarly and hissed, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?' Persephone looked at Dunford and smiled, waiting for her turn, but much to her disappointment, he just stood there and glared at all three women.

You don't talk much, do you?" she blurted out. "I didn't think there was a need. You seem to be holding up both our ends of the conversation admirably.

Cuando una persona está convencida de que tiene problemas, lo último que desea es oír una solución sencilla y clara.

Mon but dans la vie est d'être une menace pour le plus grand nombre possible de gens

Still, she had no reason to doubt her mother. She frowned, then asked, "Does it hurt?" Mrs. Smythe-Smith's expression grew serious. "I will not lie to you. It is not particularly comfortable, and it does hurt a great deal the first time. But after that it gets easier, I promise. I find it helps to keep one's mind occupied. I usually go over the household accounts.

Il n'y aura personne que j'aurai davantage envie de voir que vous. Aucune voix que j'aurai davantage envie d'entendre que la vôtre. Aucune pensée que j'aurai davantage envie d'explorer que la vôtre

No man fell so blindingly into love that he no longer held a preference for his tea. This was England, for heaven's sake. More to the point, this was tea

I'll talk to my mother," she promised. "If I'm sufficiently annoying, I'm sure I can get the engagement period cut in half." "It makes me wonder," he said. "As your future husband, should I be concerned by your use of the phrase if I'm sufficiently annoying?" "Not if you accede to all of my wishes." "A sentence that concerns me even more," he murmured.

Thomas liked to call me a bookworm." "More of a book dragon, I should think." She laughed. "Why would you say that?" "You are far too fierce to be a lowly worm.

Una persona debería leer un libro porque este provoca algo en su corazón. Porque satisface la sed de conocimiento de esa persona, no la de algún hombre que vivía en la torre de un castillo hace doscientos años" - Andrew