Top 300 Julia Quinn Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn’t know how to write anything else.”

— Julia Quinn

102. “Anthony looked down at his evil clutches – hands, he reminded himself, hands – and grinned anew.”

— Julia Quinn

103. “He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to love her.”

— Julia Quinn

104. “My dear Miss Bridgerton,” he said, wiping his eyes, “if you are the soul of kindness and amiability, then the world must be a very dangerous place.”

— Julia Quinn

105. “Good,” Colin muttered, taking a bite. “I’m famished.” “How can you think of food?” Gregory said angrily. “I always think of food,” Colin replied, his eyes searching the table until he located the butter. “What else is there?” “Your wife,” Benedict drawled.”

— Julia Quinn

106. “It’s only through sheer force and luck that she’s yet to take over the world.”

— Julia Quinn

107. “Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?”

— Julia Quinn

108. “It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn’t they?”

— Julia Quinn

109. “Caroline Trent hadn’t meant to shoot Percival Prewitt, but she had, and now he was dead. Or at least she thought he was dead.”

— Julia Quinn

110. “I do love it when I am right,′ Hyacinth said triumphantly. ‘Which is fortunate, since I so often am.”

— Julia Quinn

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

— Julia Quinn

112. “I didn’t think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.”

— Julia Quinn

113. “She’d met Colin on a Monday. She’d kissed him on a Friday. Twelve years later. She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.”

— Julia Quinn

114. “If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.”

— Julia Quinn

115. “He loved her. He wanted her. He needed her. And he needed her now.”

— Julia Quinn

116. “Many a woman has been ruined by a single kiss.”

— Julia Quinn

117. “As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. “Don’t,” he said, barely recognizing his own voice. Her eyes met his, and he said, “I’ll be your blanket”.”

— Julia Quinn

118. “It’s the curse of motherhood. You’re required to love us even when we vex you.”

— Julia Quinn

119. “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.”

— Julia Quinn

120. “Billie laughed at that, full and throaty, and once again she became so incandescently beautiful that George was half-tempted to throw a blanket over her, just to stop anyone else from wanting her.”

— Julia Quinn

121. “His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?” “I’m a governess,” she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.”

— Julia Quinn

122. “Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”

— Julia Quinn

123. “I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.”

— Julia Quinn

124. “And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.”

— Julia Quinn

125. “Everything was better with bacon. Life was better with bacon. “Elizabeth.”

— Julia Quinn

126. “At the end of the day, he was going to find himself either dead or married, and he wasn’t quite prepared to let the Bridgerton brothers take the matter to a vote. And.”

— Julia Quinn

127. “Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.”

— Julia Quinn

128. “Mysterious creatures, women. If they could just learn to say what they meant, the world would be a far simpler place.”

— Julia Quinn

129. “It’s bacon. How can anything in the world seem bleak when one is eating bacon?”

— Julia Quinn

130. “I suggest,” Colin said, raising one brow into a perfectly debonair arch, “that we flee the scene.”

— Julia Quinn

131. “You may love me more, but I will love you better.”

— Julia Quinn

132. “He did things to her, she realized. Strange, shivery things that left her breathless. He need only to look at her – not in his usual, conversational way, but to really look at her, to let his eyes settle on hers, deeply blue and insightful, and she felt naked, her soul bared.”

— Julia Quinn

133. “Change what you can and accept what you can’t.”

— Julia Quinn

134. “Lucy could feel herself slipping, sliding into need, falling into a hazy place of love and desire where right was not quite identifiable from wrong.”

— Julia Quinn

135. “How many great mysteries are there in life, really?” No one answered, so Colin guessed, “Forty-two?” She.”

— Julia Quinn

136. “If one didn’t have love, was it better, then, to be alone?”

— Julia Quinn

137. “It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood.”

— Julia Quinn

138. “Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn’t think to put any other name on anything... It was a wonder he didn’t drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade.”

— Julia Quinn

139. “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.”

— Julia Quinn

140. “Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don’t always know it.”

— Julia Quinn

141. “He rolled his eyes. Why was he surprised about anything having to do with her? Of course she’d be able to lift a large stone. She was Henry. She could probably lift him.”

— Julia Quinn

142. “She tried to say something witty; she tried to say something seductive. But her bravado failed her at the last moment. She’d never been kissed before, and now that she had all but invited him to be the first, she didn’t know what to do. His fingers loosened slightly around her wrist, but then they tugged, pulling her along with him as he stepped behind a tall, elaborately carved hedge. He whispered her name, touched her cheek. Her eyes widened, lips parted. And in the end, it was inevitable.”

— Julia Quinn

143. “Isn’t it nice,” the older lady said, leaning in so that only Penelope could hear her words, “to discover that we’re not exactly what we thought we were?”

— Julia Quinn

144. “Is it possible to be so happy for one person and at the same time be so sad for oneself? “Only the most generous in spirit can manage it. The rest of us don’t know how to be happy for another when our own dreams have gone astray.”

— Julia Quinn

145. “Oh, go ahead and giggle,” Lady Danbury sighed. “I’ve found that the only way to avoid parental frustration is to view him as a source of amusement.”

— Julia Quinn

146. “It was not that he’d changed her; all of the seeds were already there. But with him, she grew.”

— Julia Quinn

147. “The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.”

— Julia Quinn

148. “Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.”

— Julia Quinn

149. “This was Penelope, and this was love.”

— Julia Quinn

150. “Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.”

— Julia Quinn