Quotes from Judith McNaught

If I ever think you are even considering leaving me again, no matter how good you reasons, I'll have you locked in your rooms and the doors barricaded, so help me God. He lifted her foot and began to dry it. Her voice shaking, Whitney asked, Will you stay locked in there with me? He raised her dainty foot to his jaw and tenderly laid his cheek against it, then turned his head and kissed it. Yes, he whispered. -Clayton Westmoreland

Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to her, Jon cast about for some sort of polite conversation pertinent to the occasion. "I hate funerals, don't you?" He said. "I rather like them," she said smugly. "At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?

Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find that our dreams and memories quiet surpassed reality. -Lady Anne, Whitney's aunt

Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. "What is the most beautiful place you've ever seen?" Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. "Any place," he said huskily, "where you are.

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.

Elizabeth's entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew was inevitable by reasoning with him. "A gently bred Englishwoman," she shakily quoted Lucinda's lecture. "feels nothing stronger than affection. We do not fall in love." His warm lips covered hers. "I'm a Scot," he murmured huskily. "We do.

Did she really tell Roddy Carstairs she could outshoot him with his own pistol? No, Jason said dryly. She told him that if he made one more improper advance to her, she would shoot him- and if she missed, she would turn Wolf loose on him. And if Wolf didn't finish the job, she had every faith I would. Jason chuckled and shook his head. It's the first time I've been nominated for the role of hero. I was a little crushed, however, to be second choice after the dog.

I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.

I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.

Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?

We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.

Let me go." "I can't", he said hoarsely, (…)" I've tried a hundred times to let you go, Victoria, but I can't.

If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.

Love can't be forced into existence,(...)It won't come simply because you will it to happen

Don't do this to us. He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done.

Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face, he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has. -Clayton Westmoreland

His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. "Love me, Elizabeth." Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. "I do.

She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.

The old adage which says that it is 'whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.