Inspirational Quotes by Julia Quinn — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“She'd thought her love was so good, so shining, so pure that Simon would immediately abandon the years of resentment and pain that had fueled his very existence.”

“You don't have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one.”

“Thank you,” she whispered, sending up a quick prayer for his continued recovery.”

“You are always looking at people like this.” And then she made a face, one he couldn’t possibly begin to describe.”

“I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.”

“If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.”

“Not that I knew who you were until last month. But now that I've got you, I'm not letting you go.”

“Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty.”

“He turned to her. “Didn’t you see the lightning strike the steeple?”

“If you do not apologize to Lady Honoria,” Marcus said, his voice so mild as to be terrifying, “I will kill you.”

“Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”

“He loved her.”

“It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?”

“No one said we had to spend every waking moment together," he said, "but at the end of the day"-he leaned and kissed each of her eyebrows, in turn-"an most of the time during, there is no one I would rather see, no one whose voice I would rather hear, and no one whose mind I would rather explore.”

“Miss Bridgerton,” he said, “the devil himself couldn’t scare you.”

“How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.”

“Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.”

“the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.”

“I can live with you hating me," he said to the closed door.”

“This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.”

“He murmured her name, tenderly taking her face in his hands. “I love you,” he said, his voice low and fervent. “I love you with everything I am, everything I’ve been, and everything I hope to be.”

“I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.”

“I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.”

“It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him.”

“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”

“He gave her a sly, sideways look. "Did you”

“Gareth sucked in a breath. Hyacinth’s brother wasn’t going to make this easy on him. But that didn’t matter. He had vowed to do this right, and he would not be cowed.”

“She'd met Colin on a Monday.”

“You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one”

“His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in words. He loved her. He worshipped her. He'd walk across fire for her. He—”