Top 300 Julia Quinn Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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.”

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252. “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.”

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253. “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.”

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254. “The loss of hope versus the certainty of truth. It’s not an easy judgment to make.”

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

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

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257. “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.”

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

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

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260. “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.”

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261. “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.”

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262. “Great love can make miracles.”

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263. “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.”

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264. “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.”

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

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266. “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.”

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267. “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.”

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

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269. “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.”

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

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

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272. “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?”

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273. “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?”

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

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275. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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282. “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.”

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283. “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.”

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

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

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286. “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.”

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

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288. “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.”

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

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

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291. “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.”

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

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

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294. “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.”

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

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296. “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.”

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297. “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.”

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298. “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.”

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299. “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.”

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300. “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.”

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