Top 30 Jude Deveraux Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My soul will find yours.”

— Jude Deveraux

2. “Time has no meaning, Love will endure...”

— Jude Deveraux

3. “There are no new stories. It all depends on how you handle them. In romances the characters are going to fall in love with each other; you know that when you see the syrupy cover. It’s how get there that’s the fun.”

— Jude Deveraux

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4. “I’m rather hoping to find the Evil Queen. I think she’d be much more fun.”

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5. “I like you angry better than weepy.”

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6. “I’m an American and I want instant gratification.”

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7. “I think I’d want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.”

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8. “On his face was an expression of absolute love. Melting, soul-touching, raw, unbridled love, the kind of person dies for, sacrifices and suffers for. It was the kind of love that a person would wait two hundred years to see fulfilled. It was True Love in its purest form.”

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9. “It’s an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don’t love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling ‘me’ this?”

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10. “What I do know is that I can’t hurt a ghost. I wish I could fall in love with Ann Stuart. I wish I could wed her and bed her and have children with her. I wish I could fill that huge house with little spirit children who would live forever and never die.”

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11. “I’ve come to realize that life is what you make it.”

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12. “Love can make even nice people do awful things.”

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13. “Stop worrying so much. Don’t worry about me; don’t worry about you. Seize the moment. Enjoy. Let tomorrow take care of itself.”

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14. “Real love is not the pretty stuff of the jongleurs. It is a feeling inside that you are one with this man, no matter what he is. Were Travers to sell his soul to the Devil, I would still love him and mayhaps I would bargain for a good price myself.”

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15. “You are an impertinent wench! Do you not know the Black Lion eats three girls such as you each day afore dinner?” Oblivious to the staring people around them, she put a finger on his lower lip. “I do not find that a horrible way to die at all,” she said gently.”

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16. “I don’t like to read books where I feel as though I’ve stepped into the middle of things and don’t know what’s going on. I like to see characters I’ve met before, but I don’t want to feel left out because I haven’t read other books in the series.”

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17. “Mother Theresa once said that what hurt people more than poverty or illness was feeling that they weren’t needed.”

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18. “My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.”

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19. “To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.”

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20. “When she heard the deep-sleep breathing of Captain Montgomery, she turned and hissed at him. How could he sleep? The most awful things could happen and men never lost their appetites or their ability to sleep. Put food in front of a man and he ate it. Lay a man horizontal and he went to sleep – or he began fumbling with the buttons on a woman’s dress.”

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21. “I have many things I want out of life, but I’m practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.”

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22. “Will you give me another chance?” Robert repeated. Smiling, Dougless kissed him on the cheek. “No,” she said, “although I thank you very much for the offer.”

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23. “There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.”

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24. “What manner of country was this that worshiped children to the extent that they were treated as royalty?”

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25. “I was a fool to get involved with you in the first place. And you were a bigger fool for coming after me.”

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26. “Had I access to what is mine, I would shower you with jewels.”

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27. “She looked like what all women wanted to grow up to look like:.”

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28. “It was flattering to have someone listen so intently to something that was so personal.”

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29. “We women aren’t good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.”

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30. “Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn’t he?”

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31. “What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed?”

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32. “Someday every second you have spent hating will show on your face.”

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33. “Forever,” he whispered. “I will love you throughout time.”

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