"You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending."
— Julia Quinn

"Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way."
— Julia Quinn (Romancing Mister Bridgerton)

"No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books."
— Julia Quinn (Romancing Mister Bridgerton)

"I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him."
— Julia Quinn

"Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow."
— Julia Quinn

"He wondered if she'd mind if he threw her down on the blanket and tore off her clothing. She looked heartbreakingly innocent. Alex sighed. She'd probably mind."
— Julia Quinn (Splendid)

"And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.
"
— Julia Quinn (The Duke And I)

"James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?"
Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me." "
— Julia Quinn (How to Marry a Marquis)

"Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?"
For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa's watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, "And how are your watercolors?"
But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, "I imagine they're fine, thank you.""
— Julia Quinn (Romancing Mister Bridgerton)

"Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew."
— Julia Quinn (The Viscount Who Loved Me)

"She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years."
— Julia Quinn (The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever)

"Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else."
— Julia Quinn

"Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, “Yes! Yes! I win!”

“You don’t win,” Anthony snapped.

“Oh, it feels like I’ve won,” she reveled."
— Julia Quinn (The Viscount Who Loved Me)

"Olivia: You didn't even know I was there!
Harry: Excuse me, yes I did."
— Julia Quinn (What Happens in London)

"I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside."
— Julia Quinn (What Happens in London)

"She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else..."
— Julia Quinn (Romancing Mister Bridgerton)

"In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be."
— Julia Quinn

"She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.
"
— Julia Quinn (The Lost Duke of Wyndham)

"I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live."
— Julia Quinn (The Lost Duke of Wyndham)

"If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?"
— Julia Quinn (To Sir Phillip, With Love)

"It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider."
— Julia Quinn (When He Was Wicked)

"He smacked the heel of his hand against his forhead, as if that could knock the mental picture out of his head. Hell, he though irritably, he didn't want to knock the image just out of his head. He wanted to send it clear across the room and out the window."
— Julia Quinn (Brighter Than the Sun)

"And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit."
— Julia Quinn (What Happens in London)

"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."
— Julia Quinn

""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 mmost peculiar.""
— Julia Quinn (Splendid)

"Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles."
— Julia Quinn (Minx)

"Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles."
— Julia Quinn