Julia > Julia's Quotes

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“You have to fight for what you deserve. What you want is no more or less important than what anyone else wants.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up

“Except they’d never written the end. Just one more bit of unfinished business between them.”
― Alexis Daria, A Lot Like Adiós

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
― Bell Hooks

“Like the stars, your love should be a constant source of light, and like the earth, a firm foundation from which to grow.”
― Jen DeLuca, Well Met

“Love should be a partnership that builds you up and frees you to be the person you’re meant to be”
― Susannah Nix, Cream and Punishment

“Never mind, you weren’t polite. You were a pulsing vein of testosterone. I could tell, simply by your voice, that you could definitely crush a beer can on your forehead.”
― Cara Bastone, Call Me Maybe

“And read a damn romance novel,”
― Chloe Liese, Ever After Always

“anxiety is like whack-a-mole. Unpredictable, always waiting beneath the surface.”
― Chloe Liese, Ever After Always

“It’s not until I’ve cranked the Caddy that it dawns on me. He called me Princess. I bang my head on the steering wheel.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Beauty and the Baller

“I should thank you, actually. I’ve been trying for years, it seems, to be the kind of woman I admire, and all of a sudden I feel like I am that woman now. I know I’m worth it. You’re just not.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“Diana Bourne was only eighteen, but she knew one thing already: men were fools.”
― Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe

“I asked Minerva to tell me the story, Hugh—or am I to assume she doesn’t know it?”
― Virginia Heath, Never Fall for Your Fiancée

“when something happens to give you unease—well, you don’t seem to know how to manage it. And you run. Or you decide it isn’t worth it.”
― Julia Quinn, It's In His Kiss

“You treat Andrew like a brother,” he said, turning a page with slow, deliberate movements. “And I treat you . . .” He looked at her. “Not like a brother.”
― Julia Quinn, Bridgerton Collection Volume 3

“The lines in his face deepened as he scanned the words from the first page of David’s letter. “They’re threatening to form a labor union?”
― Harper St. George, The Lady Tempts an Heir

“They can’t expect us to provide comfort”—he glanced down and read from the list—“food, medical care, death benefits. Our responsibility to them ends with their wages.”
― Harper St. George, The Lady Tempts an Heir

“If love couldn’t happen to Letty, she wouldn’t despair. She had earned her isolation.”
― Elizabeth Everett, A Perfect Equation

“Were his own desires as base and selfish?”
― Elizabeth Everett, A Perfect Equation

“It would be a pity if one of the experiments went too far.” He sighed. “Athena’s Retreat is attached to Beacon House, is it not? Why, the entire structure could go up in flames. You must be careful, my lord.”
― Elizabeth Everett, A Perfect Equation

“It will be done,” Melton said. Grey nodded.”
― Elizabeth Everett, A Perfect Equation

“But I’m just a kid. What do I know?”
― Chloe Liese, With You Forever

“And he promises he won’t send any more gentlemen around.”
― Christi Caldwell, Along Came a Lady

“Then you don’t know what glory is, princess.” He winked, and with that scoundrel’s flutter to his black lashes, there could be absolutely no doubting the double meaning to his words. She gasped, her hand coming up to cover her mouth. “Mr. Audley!”
― Christi Caldwell, Along Came a Lady

“she could not miss the Kennedy Center’s production of The Dancer, a musical based on Edgar Degas’s famous painting Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.”
― Mia Sosa, Unbuttoning the CEO

“We’ve established that I hate you. We are not friends. We’re neighbors, and right now, we’re roommates.”
― Teagan Hunter, Loathe Thy Neighbor

“The more Spencer learned of the man, the more he was convinced Bellamy’s provenance was a direct line back to the gutters of London.”
― Tessa Dare, One Dance with a Duke

“I just hate the idea of her putting herself through hell with worry when she could have been honest with me.”
― Lana Ferguson, The Nanny

“I’m angry that you dealt with this alone. I’m angry that you spent all this time worrying that I would push you away without giving me the chance to tell you that there is absolutely no way I’m letting you get away again.”
― Lana Ferguson, The Nanny