Top 300 Julia Quinn Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “The loss of hope versus the certainty of truth. It’s not an easy judgment to make.”

— Julia Quinn

252. “And her lips, he realized now that she wasn’t hurling insults at him, were utter perfection, full and pink, and touched with just the right sort of curve. They seemed to tell a man that she knew things, that she knew how to laugh, and if he only laid down his soul for her, she would light up his world with a single smile. Sarah Pleinsworth. Good God, had he lost his mind?”

— Julia Quinn

253. “She could not be tamed. It would be a crime to even try.”

— Julia Quinn

254. “There was little less appealing than being decisively contradicted while one was trying to make a grand point.”

— Julia Quinn

255. “I need you. To-night. Right now. I need you.”

— Julia Quinn

256. “Kate, on the other hand, always stood with her shoulders straight and tall, couldn’t sit still if her life depended upon it, and walked as if she were in a race – and why not? she always wondered. If one was going somewhere, what could possibly be the point in not getting there quickly?”

— Julia Quinn

257. “It was hard to be loved by someone decent and good when you didn’t return the emotion.”

— Julia Quinn

258. “It was that spark. That damnable spark that never seemed to dim between them. That awful prickle of awareness that burned every time she entered a room, or took a breath, or pointed a toe. That sinking feeling that he could, if he let himself, love her.”

— Julia Quinn

259. “Life isn’t about crawling under a rock and watching the world go by, desperately hoping it won’t touch us.” He knelt down and began to help her gather the pins. “Life is about taking chances, about reaching for the moon.”

— Julia Quinn

260. “He didn’t often talk about his father, not even with his family. He’d told himself that it was because it was so much under the bridge; Edmund had been dead for over ten years. But the truth was that some things simply hurt too much. And there were some wounds that didn’t heal, not even in ten years.”

— Julia Quinn

261. “It isn’t wisdom to repeat platitudes.” “It is wisdom to know which ones bear repeating.”

— Julia Quinn

262. “The people here can’t know that joy. Their days are always perfect. Can one appreciate perfection when it is a constant in one’s life?”

— Julia Quinn

263. “We are no better than animals if we cannot learn from our mistakes and move forward.”

— Julia Quinn

264. “There is something about the heavens. In this world we live in where I am given so much power and attention, it is good to remember that I am but a bit of dust on a small dot in the universe.”

— Julia Quinn

265. “Change what you can, he’d once told her, and accept what you can’t.”

— Julia Quinn

266. “There were always whispers. And whispers, if left unchecked, could quickly grow into roars.”

— Julia Quinn

267. “It was easy to assume that you didn’t care about the opinions of others when those opinions were consistently favorable.”

— Julia Quinn

268. “George, I will stand with you between the heavens and the earth. I will tell you where you are.”

— Julia Quinn

269. “And then, very sweetly, he kissed her. It tasted like the past. It tasted like her very heart.”

— Julia Quinn

270. “Now she was a bluestocking and a hoyden.”

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271. “It was ironic, Amelia had thought more than once during the journey to Cloverhill that she had recently become so enamored of cartography. Because she was only just now coming to realize how thoroughly her own life had been mapped out by others. Even with all her plans torn asunder, her new map, with whatever routes her life was meant to take, was being drawn by others.”

— Julia Quinn

272. “I love you,” he whispered. “In all my life, its been only you.”

— Julia Quinn

273. “She loved him, and he loved her, and if there was anything more, anything else important in her world, it just didn’t matter. Not right there, not right then.”

— Julia Quinn

274. “Pack of gossips, we are.” “We are not,” Georgie said emphatically. “We are people who love and care about each other and are therefore logically interested in comings and goings. It is not at all the same as a pack of gossips.” “Sorry,” Violet said with a wince. “There really ought to be a more benign word for people who love and care about each other and are therefore logically interested in the comings and goings.” “Family?” Georgie suggested.”

— Julia Quinn

275. “But a truly smart person learns from other people’s mistakes.”

— Julia Quinn

276. “He loved her. He worshipped her. He’d walk across fire for her.”

— Julia Quinn

277. “He was hungry, needy, and he kissed her as if he would die without her, as if she were his very food, his air, his body and soul.”

— Julia Quinn

278. “His memory of her never quite lived up to the enchanting reality of her face.”

— Julia Quinn

279. “Gregory knew a thing or two about women, the most important of which was that it was always a good idea to befriend the friend, provided they really were friends, and not just that odd thing women did where they pretended to be friends and were actually just waiting for the perfect moment to knife each other in the ribs.”

— Julia Quinn

280. “He needed her the way he needed air.”

— Julia Quinn

281. “Demostrar que algo no era correcto no significaba que lo opuesto lo fuera.”

— Julia Quinn

282. “He wasn’t sure how it had come about, but her good opinion meant a great deal to him. Of course, he needed her approval in his much-neglected suit of Edwina, but there was more to it than that. She’d insulted him, she’d nearly dunked him in The Serpentine, she’d humiliated him at Pall Mall, and yet he craved her good opinion.”

— Julia Quinn

283. “If you wish to learn something, then you must.”

— Julia Quinn

284. “Did it matter what a man wrote if no one ever read it? Did words have meaning if they were never heard?”

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285. “Men are always more interested in a woman if they think other men are interested.” – Simon Basset.”

— Julia Quinn

286. “Oh, and do you happen to know where Miss Bridgerton might have gone off to? I noticed that breakfast has been cleared.” “Out, Sir Phillip,” the maid said. “With the children.” Phillip blinked in surprise. “She went out with Oliver and Amanda? Willingly?” The maid nodded. “That’s interesting.” He sighed, trying not to envision the scene. “I hope they don’t kill her.” The maid looked alarmed. “Sir Phillip?” “It was a joke.”

— Julia Quinn

287. “Why why why was he being such an ass?”

— Julia Quinn

288. “There is nothing wrong with doubting yourself, Hermione. Marriage is an enormous undertaking. The biggest choice you will ever make in your life. Once it’s done, you can’t change your mind.”

— Julia Quinn

289. “He was comfortable with her. He could make the sort of stupid comments that were only a little bit funny and made no sense. The kind one made when one didn’t have to weigh every word and worry about judgment or scorn.”

— Julia Quinn

290. “A lady must have her own private reserve of secrets and strength,” her grandmother continued. “Trust me.” She took a sip of her drink, let out a contented exhale, and took another. “Once you are married you will understand what I mean.”

— Julia Quinn

291. “Idiots. The world was populated with idiots. She’d long since learned the truth of that, along with the depressing fact that there was very little she could do about it.”

— Julia Quinn

292. “Get yourself a dress and get yourself some flowers, because, sweetheart, you’re getting yourself a new name.”

— Julia Quinn

293. “When my father grew ill, he had so many regrets. There were so many things he washed he’d done, he told me. He’d always assumed he had more time. That’s something I’ve always carried with me. Why on earth do you think I decided to attempt the flute at such an advanced age? Everyone told me I was too old, that to be truly good at it I had to have started as a child. But that’s not the point, really. I don’t need to be truly good. I just need to enjoy it for myself. And I need to know I tried.”

— Julia Quinn

294. “Really, if people weren’t so intent on keeping young women completely ignorant of the realities of marriage, scenes like this could be avoided.”

— Julia Quinn

295. “That seemed to cover a lot of life, he’d come to realize. Proving something right wasn’t the same as proving the opposite wrong.”

— Julia Quinn

296. “Yes, that’s exactly what he would do. Avoid her. How difficult could that be?”

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297. “This girl – this woman – she was a wonder. She was going to change history. She already had.”

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298. “She had long since learned that it took a fully formed miracle to get them to admit that a woman might be smarter than a man about anything other than fabrics, perfumed soaps, and tea.”

— Julia Quinn

299. “It is simply a matter of making sure they realize that you are comfortable with them. Once they realize that, they will be comfortable with you.”

— Julia Quinn

300. “He wondered if everyone’s lives had a dividing point. A moment which sat clearly between before and after.”

— Julia Quinn