Julia Quinn Quotes - Page 9

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

  Julia Quinn

  Men, Perfect, Realizing

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

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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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• Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

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  Men, Sheep

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• Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.

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  Hurt, Spy, Jam

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• I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

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  Years, Gone, Firsts

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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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• Caroline stamped her foot in frustration, but when it landed, it landed on something considerably less flat than the floor. "Owww!" he yelled. Oh! His foot!Sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorry , she mouthed.I didn't mean it. "If you think I can understand that," he growled, "you're crazier than I'd originally thought.

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  Mean, Frustration, Thinking

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• Did you know I dream about your hair? I use to say it was the color of the sun at sunset, but I'm wrong. It's brighter than the sun, just as you are.

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  Dream, Sunset, Hair

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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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• Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.

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  Mind, Wish, Be Careful

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• Olivia: You didn't even know I was there! Harry: Excuse me, yes I did.

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  Olivia, Excuse, Excuse Me

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

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  Marriage, Girl, Mother

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Will you be quiet?" he asked, smiling down at her. She nodded. He pretended to think about it. "I don't believe you/" She planted her hands on her hips, which had to be a ludicrous postition, naked as she was from the waist up. All right," he acceded, "but the only words I'll allow from your mouth are, 'Oh, Gareth,' and 'Yes, Gareth.' He lifted his finger. What about 'More, Gareth?'" He almost kept a straith face. "That will be acceptable

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  Believe, Thinking, Hands

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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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• I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is most peculiar.

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  Niece, Eyelashes, Alex

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