On the Way to the Wedding Quotes

“It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the
human race would have died out generations earlier.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“Gregory,” she said, “you cannot leave me here. What if someone finds you and removes you from the house? Who will know I am here? And what if…and what if…and then what if…”
He smiled, enjoying her officiousness too much to actually listen to her words. She was definitely herself again.
“When this is all over,” he said, “I shall bring you a sandwich.”
That stopped her short. “A sandwich? A sandwich?”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“He stepped toward her, and her heart just ached from it. His face was so handsome, and so dear, and so perfectly wonderfully familiar. She knew the slope of his cheeks, and the exact shade of his eys, brownish near the iris, melting into green at the edge.
And his mouth-she knew that mouth, the look of it, the feel of it. She knew his smile, and she knew his frown, and she knew-
she knew far to much.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“She's my little sister. Mine to torture and mine to protect.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“I simply refuse to deal with idiots...It has cut my social obligations in half.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother.
“Vocabulary and comprehension were never her strong suits.”
Violet rolled her eyes. “Every day I marvel that the two of you managed to reach adulthood.”
“Afraid we’d kill each other?” Gregory quipped.
“No, that I’d do the job myself.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“Lucy,” he whispered.
She closed her eyes.
“Be with me,” he said.
Slowly, she shook her head. “Please don’t.”
He tugged her closer and pulled the candlestick from her slackening fingers. “Be with me, Lucy Abernathy. Be my love, be my wife.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“Yes.” She sighed again, with even more drama, not that Gregory would have imagined it possible. “It is
all so romantic,” she added. “The bride, the groom…”
“Both are considered standard in the ceremony, I understand.”
His mother shot him a peevish look. “How could I have raised a son who is so unromantic?”
Gregory decided there could not possibly be an answer to that.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“But when he said he couldn’t shoot, it just seemed to make an odd sort of
sense to tell him that Hermione couldn’t dance. It fit, really. Men were supposed to shoot, and women
were supposed to dance, and trusty best friends were supposed to keep their foolish mouths shut.
Clearly, all three of them needed a bit of instruction.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“You can't fix this,' she ground out.
'That is not true. There is nothing anyone could hold over you that could not be overcome.'
'By what?' she demanded. 'Rainbows and sprites and the everlasting good wishes of your family? It won't work, Gregory. It won't. The Bridgertons may be powerful, but you cannot change the past, and you cannot bend the future to suit your whims ... You don't understand. You can't possibly. You are all so happy, so perfect.'
'We are not.'
'You are. You don't even know that you are, and you can't conceive that the rest of us are not, that we might struggle and try and be good and still not receive what we wish for.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“He knew her, he realized. He truly knew her. Not just the usual things. In fact, he didn't know the usual things. He did not know her favorite color. Nor cold he guess her favorite animal or food.
But somehow it didn't matter if he didn't knw if she preferred pink or blue or purple or black. He knew her heart. He wanted her heart.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“Lucy nodded dutifully, all the while making a mental list of all the places she would rather be. Paris, Venice, Greece, although weren’t they at war? No matter. She would still rather be in Greece.

(On the Way to the Wedding, Bridgertons #8, by Julia Quinn)”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“What did one say when a gentleman confessed to a shortcoming? She couldn’t recall ever hearing one do so before, but surely, sometime in the course of history, some gentleman had.

(Lucy about Gregory, On the Way to the Wedding, Bridgertons #8, by Julia Quinn).”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“He loved her.
It was the strangest, most wonderful sensation. It was exhilarating. It was as if the world had suddenly become open to him. Clear. He understood. He understood everything he needed to know, and it was all right there in her eyes.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“How love feels,” he clarified. “Do you think it could possibly be different for different people? If you loved someone, truly and deeply, wouldn’t it feel like…like everything?”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“Mysterious creatures, women. If they could just learn to say what they meant, the world would be a far simpler place.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“Everyone had spent so much time telling her that love was a thing of magic, something wild and uncontrollable that came like a thunderstorm.

And now it was something else? It was just comfort? Something peaceful? Something that actually sounded nice?”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“She didn't want to be commended for knowing how to settle for second-best. That was like winning a prize for the prettiest shoes in a footrace. Irrelevant and not the point.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“He smiled.
Her stomach felt strange.
She tried to smile back. She really should be going.
So naturally, she did not move.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“He loved her. He'd said it, and even though she couldn't quite believe it, she believed *him*.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“Every woman should know how to curse in another language since polite society has deemed English unavailable to us.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“Gregory knew a thing or two about women, the most important of which was that it was always a good idea to befriend the friend, provided they really were friends, and not just that odd thing women did where they pretended to be friends and were actually just waiting for the perfect moment to knife each other in the ribs.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“Lucy or Lucinda?” “Oh, Lucy,” Katharine said, knowing instantly what he was talking about. “She’s not really a Lucinda.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“Blond hair, not too blond. Blue eyes—again, not too blue. Awkwardly shaped mouth that never quite held still the way she wanted it to, and the same nondescript nose with the same seven freckles, including the one close to her eye that no one ever noticed but her. It looked like Ireland. She didn’t know why that interested her, but it always had.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“There is nothing wrong with doubting yourself, Hermione. Marriage is an enormous undertaking. The biggest choice you will ever make in your life. Once it’s done, you can’t change your mind.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“He knew her, he realized. He truly knew her. Not just the usual things. In fact, he didn’t know the usual things. He did not know her favorite color. Nor could he guess her favorite animal or food.

But somehow it didn’t matter if he didn’t know if she preferred pink or blue or purple or black. He knew her heart. He wanted her heart.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“She had been kissed.

Her. Lucy. For once it was about her. She was at the center of her world. It was life. And it was happening to her.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“Lucy could feel herself slipping, sliding into need, falling into a hazy place of love and desire where right was not quite identifiable from wrong.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“Las mujeres eran criaturas misteriosas. Si pudieran aprender a decir lo que realmente querían decir, el mundo sería de lejos un lugar más sencillo.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding

“İnsanın umutsuzluğunun yalnızca Tanrı’nın ismiyle anlatılabileceği durumlar da vardır.”
― Julia Quinn, On the Way to the Wedding