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“She'd met Colin on a Monday.
She'd kissed him on a Friday.
Twelve years later.
She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.”
― Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband.

-Penelope Featherington”
― Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me

“Rehearsels, actually."
"Rehearsals?"
"For the-"
Oh,no.
"-musicale."
The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a romantic thought when faced with the memory-or the threat-of a Smythe-Smith musicale.”
― Julia Quinn, Just Like Heaven

“You are always looking at people like this.” And then she made a face, one he couldn’t possibly begin to describe.
“If I ever look like that,” he said dryly, “precisely like that, to be more precise, I give you leave to shoot me.”
― Julia Quinn, Just Like Heaven

“The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have
her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again.”
― Julia Quinn, Just Like Heaven

“The first step toward power is to accept reality”
― Shannon McKenna, Behind Closed Doors

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“Miss Burns needs air," the duke announced and before anyone could offer an opinion, he scooped her up in his arms and said, "I'm taking her inside."

And just like that, all the chill left the air. Catriona allowed herself the indulgence of resting her cheek against Bretton's chest, and as she lay there, listening to the steady beat of his heart, she could not help but think that this was where she was meant to be.

But then, of course, Lord Oakley had to spoil the whole thing. "You're taking her inside so she might get air?"

"Shut up," the duke said.”
― Julia Quinn, The Lady Most Willing...

“Oakley won't," the duke said.

She turned and blinked. "I beg your pardon."

"Lord Oakley. He won't forget to find us rooms. I've known him for years. The only thing that is making this bearable is that he must be dying inside over all this."

"You don't like him?"

"On the contrary. I've long considered him a friend. It's why I enjoy his misery so much.”
― Julia Quinn, The Lady Most Willing...

“What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.”
― Fahmida Riaz