Julia Quinn Quotes: 21

• You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

• Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.

  The Viscount Who Loved Me

• Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.

  Romancing Mister Bridgerton

• I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.

  Romancing Mister Bridgerton

• James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?"Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

  How to Marry a Marquis

• I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

  Ten Things I Love About You

• I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

• It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one.

  An Offer From a Gentleman

• Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

  The Viscount Who Loved Me

• She'd met Colin on a Monday.She'd kissed him on a Friday.Twelve years later.She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.

  Romancing Mister Bridgerton

• You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

  Minx

• And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.

  The Duke and I

• No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

  Romancing Mister Bridgerton

• Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

  The Viscount Who Loved Me

• Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

  Minx

• Caroline, do you value your neck?" "Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?" "Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.

  To Catch an Heiress

• And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way........His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds.Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.

  Romancing Mister Bridgerton

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

  The Viscount Who Loved Me

• Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.

  To Catch an Heiress

• How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.”He moved his head slightly to the side. It seemed to be a sickly interpretation of a shrug.“Of course you’re feeling terrible,” she clarified, “but is there any change? More terrible? Less terrible?”He made no response.“The same amount of terrible?

  Just Like Heaven

• He loved her.He wanted her.He needed her.And he needed her now.

  Just Like Heaven