Julia Quinn Quotes - Page 9

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• He gave her his best smile. His best I-almost-died-so-how-can-you-deny-me smile. Or at least that’s how he hoped it appeared. The truth was, he wasn’t a very accomplished flirt, and it might very well have come across as an Iam- mildly-deranged-so-it’s-in-all-of-our-best-interests-if-youpretend- to-agree-with-me smile.

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  Flirting, Might, Deny

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Jan 08, 2015

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• the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

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  Unexpected, Moments, Unexpected Moments

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• Oh, Elizabeth," he murmured, leaning down to press a gentle kiss on her mouth, "I love you so much. You must believe me." "I believe you," she said softly, "because in your eyes, I see what I feel in my heart.

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  Believe, Love You, Heart

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• It's just that I don't think friends tie friends to the bedpost." James choked on his tea. "Caroline, you have no idea.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Ties

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• Miss Wynter, I think you should be the evil queen,” Harriet said. “There’s an evil queen?” Daniel echoed. With obvious delight. “Of course,” Harriet replied. “Every good play has an evil queen.” Frances actually raised her hand. “And a un—” “Don’t say it,” Elizabeth growled. Frances crossed her eyes, put her knife to her forehead in an approximation of a horn, and neighed.

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  Queens, Eye, Thinking

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• What about me?” Frances asked. “The butler,” Harriet replied without even a second of hesitation. Frances’s mouth immediately opened to protest. “No, no,” Harriet said. “It’s the best role, I promise. You get to do everything.” “Except be a unicorn,” Daniel murmured. Frances tilted her head to the side with a resigned expression. “The next play,” Harriet finally gave in. “I shall find a way to include a unicorn in the one I’m working on right now.” Frances pumped both fists in the air. “Huzzah!

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  Air, Expression, Play

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• Have you seen Frances?” He tilted his head to the right. “I believe she’s off rooting about in the bushes.” Anne followed his gaze uneasily. “Rooting?” “She told me she was practicing for the next play.” Anne blinked at him, not following. “For when she gets to be a unicorn.” “Oh, of course.” She chuckled. “She is rather tenacious, that one.

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  Believe, Play, Next

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• 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.

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  Rose, Experts, Bruises

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• He said he loved me,” she whispered. Daniel swallowed, and he had the strangest sensation, almost a premonition of what it must like to be a parent. Someday, God willing, he’d have a daughter, and that daughter would look like the woman standing in front of him, and if ever she looked at him with that bewildered expression, whispering, “He said he loved me . . .” Nothing short of murder would be an acceptable response.

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  Daughter, Expression, Parent

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• Love is blind,” Harriet quipped. “But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.

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  Love Is, Love Is Blind, Blind

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• I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you’re through.

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  Fighting, Important, Looks

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• She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons.

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  Men, Dragons, Want

  Julia Quinn (2012). “A Night Like This”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• What happened to your face?" Harriet asked. "It was a misunderstanding," Daniel said smoothly, wondering how long it might take for his bruises to heal. He did not think he was particularly vain, but the questions were growing tiresome. "A misunderstanding?" Elizabeth echoed. "With an anvil?" "Oh, stop," Harriet admonished her. "I think he looks very dashing." "As if he dashed into an anvil." "Pay no attention," Harriet said to him. "She lacks imagination.

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  Thinking, Imagination, Long

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• Daphne felt something wild and wicked take hold. “Let’s walk in the garden,” she said softly. “We can’t.” “We must.” “We can’t.

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  Garden, Wicked, Said

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• Simon stopped breathing until her forefinger touched his nipple, and then his hand shot up to cover hers. "I want you," he said. Her eyes flicked downward, and her lips curved ever so slightly. "I know." "No," he groaned, pulling her closer. "I want to be in your heart. I want-" His entire body shuddered when their skin touched. "I want to be in your soul.

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  Heart, Eye, Hands

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• Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me... to me..." He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.

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  Heaven, Complaining, Bears

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• A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

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  Men, Perfect, Realizing

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?

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  Pride, Emotion, Reserved

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• Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious bowl of hot, sticky porridge-he had mucked out the stable stalls, milked a cow, been pecked by three separate hens, weeded a vegetable garden, and fallen into a trough.

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  Garden, Vegetables, Interesting

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• Then it's settled," Harriet said. "We shall work out the smaller roles later.""What about you?" Elizabeth demanded."Oh, I'm going to be the goddess of the sun and moon.""The tale gets stranger and stranger," Daniel said."Just wait until act seven," Miss Wynter told him."Seven?" His head snapped up. "There are seven acts?""Twelve," Harriet corrected, "but don't worry, you're in only eleven of them. Now then, Miss Wynter, when do you propose that we begin our rehearsals? And may we do so out of doors? There is a clearing by the gazebo that would be ideal.

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  Moon, Doors, Work Out

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• He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

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  Eight, Pigs, Rabbits

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• This is why I didn't get married last year," she said to him. "I wouldn't be here to nurse you." She thought about that for a moment. "Of course, one could make the argument that you wouldn't be in this situation if not for me. But we're not going to dwell upon that.

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  Years, Nurse, Lasts

  Laurie Paige, Julia Quinn (2015). “Something to Hide”, p.156, Harlequin

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• It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

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  Motherhood, Vex, Curse

  Julia Quinn (2009). “The Duke And I”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

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  Romance, Waiting, Historical

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• 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.

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  Writing, Careers, Expectations

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