Top 40 Julie Anne Long Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It isn’t a weakness to accept kindness. It isn’t a weakness to allow yourself to be cared for.”

— Julie Anne Long

2. “How had it never occurred to him the peril in which women walked every day, even the most pampered of them? How valiant the simple act of being a woman was in so many ways.”

— Julie Anne Long

3. “Their faces were inches apart now, and he traced her lips with one finger, lightly, lightly, then placed his lips there as if he’d drawn them into being.”

— Julie Anne Long

4. “It’s just a part of her life. Sewing her world back together again, sometimes even daily.”

— Julie Anne Long

5. “Good God. She was Wellington with eyelashes.”

— Julie Anne Long

6. “But love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and “is kind” nonsense. It’s like the Song of Solomon. It’s jealousy and fire and floods. It’s everything that consumes.” – Lady Fennimore.”

— Julie Anne Long

7. “Oh, I’m bowed, but unbroken.”

— Julie Anne Long

8. “Her laugh was wonderful. It was mischief made musical.”

— Julie Anne Long

9. “He regarded her thoughtfully, and something about that look traveled up her spine like a trailed finger.”

— Julie Anne Long

10. “Good evening, Miss Eversea. You’ve stars in your hair.”

— Julie Anne Long

11. “A girl could forget her precise location in the universe when a man looked at her with eyes like those.”

— Julie Anne Long

12. “I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.”

— Julie Anne Long

13. “But now he understood why someone would write things like ‘she walked in beauty like the night’ and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time.”

— Julie Anne Long

14. “Plain girls who were also clever were a ha’pence a dozen.”

— Julie Anne Long

15. “He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.”

— Julie Anne Long

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16. “The stars are particularly spectacular tonight, don’t you think? Dazzling. As if they’ve all had a good rinsing from the storm.”

— Julie Anne Long

17. “He was close enough now to see that her profile was designed to do dramatic things to hearts: stop them, steal them, break them.”

— Julie Anne Long

18. “For if light had a sound, it was that laugh.”

— Julie Anne Long

19. “She felt the pain of his loss inside her like a savage hook. She wanted to reach into him and take it out, as though it were shrapnel. But the pain was old to him, and somehow it had become a part of him. He could bear it and speak of it. It had shaped him; he had accommodated it. He had loved and he had lost and it had made him who he was.”

— Julie Anne Long

20. “When Phoebe glanced back at the marquess he swiftly lifted that rogue lock of hair, pointed at his forehead and mouthed: Good aim. She clapped a hand over her mouth. Dear God, he was sporting a bruise! So that’s where she’d clocked him with his hat! And this explained the forelock.”

— Julie Anne Long

21. “I have learned that everyone else in the world is boring except you.”

— Julie Anne Long

22. “The one thing she’d been able to count on her entire life was her cleverness. She was so often right. It was humbling and disorienting to realize that she in truth knew nothing at all. One only ever saw a fraction of someone, whatever it was they chose to show you, and extrapolated a whole person from that. And saw them through a prism of one’s own prejudices.”

— Julie Anne Long

23. “He wished for access to all the world’s languages at once, for then he would have a better word for how he felt and what she was.”

— Julie Anne Long

24. “We did everything we could to save him, to defend him and still we knew he was going to die. One never feels more like speck upon the breast of the universe in those moments.”

— Julie Anne Long

25. “There are those who think beauty is a thing of surface, and forget that it’s really of the soul. But good is something you are, not something you do. – Vicar Adam Sylvaine.”

— Julie Anne Long

26. “Let’s refer to it as Saturday, rather than the day of my hanging, shall we?”

— Julie Anne Long

27. “She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.”

— Julie Anne Long

28. “Before him and since he’d gone away, she’d either contracted or ever-so-subtly contorted her very being to accommodate nearly everybody else. She was only ever wholly herself with him.”

— Julie Anne Long

29. “Gentleness was sometimes perilously close to pity.”

— Julie Anne Long

30. “All his reckless, whimsical, sensual testing of the world throughout the years had been a search for what he knew with her. Passion and peace. Laughter and combat and friendship. God, but he loved her. It was an immensely humbling, enormous, radiant thing.”

— Julie Anne Long

31. “And as she looked back at him, she felt the serrated edges of her heart in her chest. But also a sort of dizzying vastness: she could face anything now.”

— Julie Anne Long

32. “Oh, God. She’d now have to invent a bawdy verse on the spot. She’d never had to improvise so much in her entire life as she had in the last five minutes. Improvise being another word for lie, of course.”

— Julie Anne Long

33. “Such a fragile way to sustain a whole life: on a web one weaves for oneself.”

— Julie Anne Long

34. “Not every man will make you want to do anything he wishes because the moment he touches you your body is his to command. Not every man is capable of making you scream with bliss in every imaginable position, or knows where to touch you or listens to your breath and your sighs to know precisely how to touch you, so that the pleasure you experience is the most intense. Not every man will make you see stars every... single... time.”

— Julie Anne Long

35. “We think we’re so clever. And yet we’re always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.”

— Julie Anne Long

36. “You ought to choose fewer words that contain S for the time being. You are spitting all over me.”

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37. “He was all too aware of the failings of his species and he knew how to use them to his advantage. A fascinating skill. A useful one. But hardly a loving one.”

— Julie Anne Long

38. “Maybe we’re born with a full set of qualities, some fine, some not so fine, and none of us knows what will bring out everything that lives within us. And sometimes it’s the fine qualities that cause us trouble, and the not so fine that save us.”

— Julie Anne Long

39. “She mulled how very Jonathan of him to effortlessly find his way to her when she needed him, labyrinth or no. Just as he’d effortlessly uncovered her secrets. But that was simply because he’d been born knowing the secret to her. He was hers and she was his. Just as there was one key for every lock.”

— Julie Anne Long

40. “Rebecca stared back at him, still dazed. She’d forgotten how to speak; it seemed an unimportant skill, anyhow, when such kisses were to be had, when a whole world could be made from a kiss.”

— Julie Anne Long

41. “He felt feral, standing naked – clearly the word of the day – and perspiring at an open window, irritable and restless, acutely aware of every inch of his skin, or, more accurately, the full contours of his being. As though it had been coiled into a cramped place and newly freed, and now was needling him as the blood flowed again. Skin was useful for more than being the thing between his viscera and bullets, for instance. It was capable of knowing glories.”

— Julie Anne Long

42. “She most definitely had an instinct for passion, an instinct that matched his own, that had nearly caused him to lose his head. Well, now he knew her skin was petal smooth; he knew the rich wine of her mouth; he knew the feel of that delicate, puckered nipple rubbed against his cheek –.”

— Julie Anne Long

43. “One only ever saw a fraction of someone, whatever it was they chose to show you, and extrapolated a whole person from that. And saw them through a prism of one’s own prejudices.”

— Julie Anne Long

44. “And home, Elise, is anywhere love is. Any you are my love.”

— Julie Anne Long

45. “I thought love was meant to be an easy, peaceful thing, Lillias. But it’s like life itself. It’s maddening. And beautiful. And changeable and funny and passionate. It’s... like a Hudson River Valley sunset. Underneath all that fire and glory the sky is ever constant. It’s like you. For me, it is you.”

— Julie Anne Long

46. “His voice surprised her: a baritone with the depth of a bell and deliciously frayed at the edges, it was like stumbling into a patch of sunlight on a relentlessly gray day.”

— Julie Anne Long