Top 300 Julia Quinn Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “You married into the family. You have to love me. It’s a contractual obligation.”

— Julia Quinn

202. “No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.”

— Julia Quinn

203. “But it does feed a strange longing to touch a dew-dampened lawn, or feel a cool mist on one’s face, or even to remember the joy of a perfect day after a week of rain.”

— Julia Quinn

204. “There was a huge difference between dislike and disregard.”

— Julia Quinn

205. “You sorts who excel at arithmetic simply don’t understand how we lesser mortals can look at a page of numbers and not know the answer – or at least how to get to the answer – instantly.”

— Julia Quinn

206. “She simply wasn’t the sort of girl who attracted a man like him, and she feared that she never would be.”

— Julia Quinn

207. “I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life,” he said. And then Hyacinth realized that some things did come in a flash. And there were some things one simply knew without possessing the ability to explain them. Because in that moment she knew that she was going to marry this man. No one else would do.”

— Julia Quinn

208. “It’s good that you can be horrid when necessary. It’s a useful skill.”

— Julia Quinn

209. “I’m sure you’re already aware that you should never trust a gentleman who says you can trust him.”

— Julia Quinn

210. “Well, you know what they say about motherhood,” Penelope said. “ ‘They’?” Daphne murmured. Penelope paused just long enough to shoot her a wry grin. “The years fly by, and the days are endless.”

— Julia Quinn

211. “It was simple. His world was Kate. If he denied that, he might as well stop breathing right now.”

— Julia Quinn

212. “It means that love isn’t about being afraid that it will all be snatched away. Love’s about finding the one person who makes your heart complete, who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could.”

— Julia Quinn

213. “There were a thousand ways to make an idiot of oneself, with new opportunities arising every day. It was exhausting trying to avoid them all.”

— Julia Quinn

214. “Anthony glared at his brother, then for good measure at Miss Sheffield, who was looking at him as if he’d just despoiled ten virgins in her presence.”

— Julia Quinn

215. “Death wasn’t frightening to a man alone. The great beyond held no terror when one had managed to avoid attachments here on earth.”

— Julia Quinn

216. “If you can throw it, I can catch it.”

— Julia Quinn

217. “He was her other half, the spoon she was made to nestle into. They would be young together, and then they would grow old together. They would hold hands, and move to the country, and make lots and lots of babies.”

— Julia Quinn

218. “But if she was destined to be alone, even with a husband at her side, then by God she’d be alone and strong.”

— Julia Quinn

219. “Was the world populated with blind men, or merely stupid ones?”

— Julia Quinn

220. “We are women. And the men who hold our fates hardly conceive that we have desires and dreams of our own. If we are ever to live the lives we want, we have to make them conceive it. Our bravery, the force of our will, shall be their proof.”

— Julia Quinn

221. “From the moment I saw you trying to go over the wall, I have loved you desperately. I cannot breathe when you are not near. I love you, Charlotte.”

— Julia Quinn

222. “The topic of rakes has, of course, been previously discussed in this column, and This Author has come to the conclusion that there are rakes, and there are Rakes. Anthony Bridgerton is a Rake.”

— Julia Quinn

223. “Just George? Farmer George? Come. Hide from the heavens with me.”

— Julia Quinn

224. “And in that moment he realized that this was about more than love. This woman made him a better person. He’d been good and strong and kind before, but with her at his side, he was something more.”

— Julia Quinn

225. “You are the reason I exist,” she said softly, “the very reason I was born.”

— Julia Quinn

226. “Is a broken king really better than a mad one?”

— Julia Quinn

227. “What he needs to do,” Angus wheezed, “is travel south to Kintyre, turn back north and cross the Firth of Lorne to Mull so that he can scoot out to Iona, sail up to Skye, cross over to the mainland to Ullapool, back down to Inverness, pay his respects at Culloden, and from there, he can proceed south to Blair Castle, stopping in Grampian if he chooses so he can see how a proper bottle of whisky is made.”

— Julia Quinn

228. “Anthony could actually feel the tips of his ears turning red with barely leashed rage. “You, madam, are a menace to society.” She opened her mouth as if to return the insult, but instead she just offered him an almost frighteningly devious smile and turned to the dog and said, “Shake, Newton.”

— Julia Quinn

229. “Please just say what you mean. It is exhausting trying to determine what everyone is saying to me when it has nothing to do with the words that are actually coming out of their mouths.”

— Julia Quinn

230. “Me?” “Yes, you,” Lady Danbury grumbled. “I’d be happy to talk with someone else if you could find me a body with more than half a brain.” Penelope choked on the beginnings of laughter as she motioned to her companions. “Er, I assure you that Lady Bridgerton – ” Lady Bridgerton was furiously shaking her head. “She’s too busy trying to get that oversized brood of hers married off,” Lady Danbury announced.”

— Julia Quinn

231. “No, I’m not going to forget it, I’ve spent my life forgetting things, not saying them, never telling anyone what I really want.”

— Julia Quinn

232. “We are one crown. His weight is mine, and mine is his. One. Crown.”

— Julia Quinn

233. “For one split moment, he had the bizarre thought that she somehow knew everything about him, every last detail from the moment of his birth to his certainty of his own death. It seemed, in that second, with her face tipped up toward his and her lips slightly parted, that she, more than anyone else who would ever walk this earth, truly knew him. It was thrilling. But more than that, it was terrifying.”

— Julia Quinn

234. “You did not go over the wall,” he said. She smiled. “No, George. I did not go over the wall.”

— Julia Quinn

235. “It isn’t gossip,” Hyacinth retorted. “It’s the honest dissemination of information.”

— Julia Quinn

236. “Did words have meaning if they were never heard?”

— Julia Quinn

237. “It had been the oddest sensation when she’d met him, almost as if she were a jagged puzzle piece finally finding its mate.”

— Julia Quinn

238. “Great love can make miracles.”

— Julia Quinn

239. “And he needed the yes. He had loved her for years, dreamed about touching her for so damned long. And now that the moment was finally here, he just didn’t know if he could bear it if she didn’t really want it. There were only so many ways a man’s heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldn’t survive another puncture.”

— Julia Quinn

240. “And in that moment, she knew she loved him. With every thought, every emotion, every piece of her being, she loved him.”

— Julia Quinn

241. “You will always be a Bridgerton, and we behave with honor and honesty, not because it is expected of us, but because that is what we are.”

— Julia Quinn

242. “Iris is not pleasant to live with when she is in ill humor and Daisy is not pleasant to live with when she is in good humor.”

— Julia Quinn

243. “He sat in his chair, barely able to contain his own maniacal laughter. Oh, Michael, he thought, the chair shaking beneath him as he let his head fall into his hands. Welcome to the rest of your life.”

— Julia Quinn

244. “Some people broke rules. Others merely wished to.”

— Julia Quinn

245. “I won’t offer you a penny for your thoughts, since I know they can’t possibly be worth that much, but what are you thinking about?”

— Julia Quinn

246. “I can live with you hating me... I just can’t live without you.”

— Julia Quinn

247. “Be grateful that I do not order you destroyed.”

— Julia Quinn

248. “The viscount was running in front of her, and all she could think was that he must really want to marry Edwina, because despite the fact that he was clearly a splendid athlete, he looked most undignified dashing through the park after a rotund corgi.”

— Julia Quinn

249. “And so kissing her became a matter of self-preservation. It was simple. If he did not kiss her now, if he did not consume her, he would die. It sounded melodramatic, but at the moment he would have sworn it to be true. The hand of desire twisting around his gut would burst into flame and take him along with it.”

— Julia Quinn

250. “He was her love, and he would always be her love.”

— Julia Quinn