Ten Things I Love About You Quotes

“I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature."
She looked at him questioningly.
"Where would Romeo and Juliet be?"
"Alive.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“Annabel stared at the door, then turned to Sebastian, feeling quite dazed. "I think my grandmother may have just given me permission to ruin myself."
"I'll do all the ruining tonight," he said with a grin. "If you don't mind.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“Annabel looked down. Her hands were shaking. She couldn't do this. Not yet. She couldn't face the man she'd kissed who happened to be the heir to the man she didn't want to kiss but whos she probably was going to marry. Oh yes, and she could not forget that if she did marry the man she didn't want to kiss, she was likely to provide him with a new heir, thus cutting off the man she did want to kiss.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“Happiness could be like a head cold. Or cholera.
Catching.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“Is your head bothering you?" Louisa asked. But she wasn't paying much attention. Frederick, her ridiculously fat basset hounds, had spotted a fellow canine in the distance and was yanking on the lead. "Frederick!" she yelped, tripping on a step or two before she found her footing.
Frederick stopped, althought it wasn't clear if it was due to Louisa's hold on the lead or outright exhaustion. He let out a hugh sigh, and frankly, Annabel was suprised that he didn't collapse on the ground.
"I think someone has been sneaking him sausages again," Louisa grumbled.
Annabel looked elsewhere.
"Annabel!"
"He looked so HUNGERY," Annabel insisted.
Louisa motioned toward her dog, whos belly slid along the grass. "THAT looks hungery?"
"His eyes looked hungery.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“I think your eyes might be the exact same color as mine," she said wonderingly.
"What fine gray-eyed babies we shall have," he said, before he thought the better of it.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“You're charm can be terrifying."
"I suppose if you put it that way I cannot help but be complimented.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“I like my parents," Olivia said.
Sebastian shook his head, "A concept so alien I think it must be unpatriotic.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“You'll lose your audience and then where will we be? We have future gray-eyed babies to feed, you know.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“He closed his eyes. The insides of his eyelids were a brownish black, not at all the same as the thick purple of the night. Darkness had so many colors. It was strange, that, and perhaps a little disquieting. But—

―Oh!‖

A foot slammed into his left calf, and he opened his eyes just in time to see a woman tumbling backward.

Right onto his blanket.

He smiled. The gods still loved him.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“But I wouldn't choose to spend time with them." Sebastian considered this, "Especially my father. As he's dead.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“What are you doing here?"Lady Vickers asked, turning her frosty glare to Sebastian.
"Exactly what you think, my lady," he said.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“You've already danced with him," Louisa said.
Annabel nodded. "I know."
"People will talk."
Annabel turned and blinked, trying to set her cousin's face into focus. "People are already talking," she said.
Louisa opened her mouth as if she planned to say more, but then she just smiled. "Annabel Winslow," she said softly, "I do believe you are falling in love."
That snapped Annabel right out of her daze. "I'm not."
"Oh, you are."
"I hardly know him."
"Apparently you know enough.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“Sebastian Grey.
The worrds rang like a miserable moan in her head. On the list of men she ought not to be kissing, he had to rank at the top, along with the King, Lord Liverpool, and the chimney sweep.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“At present, however, with his aching head and queasy stomach, Sebastian was feeling exceedingly resistible. Or if not that, then resistant. Aphrodite herself could descend from the ceiling, floating on a bloody clamshell, naked but for a few well-placed flowers, and he‘d likely puke at her feet.

No, no, she ought to be completely naked. If he was going to prove the existence of a goddess, right here in this room, she was damned well going to be naked.

He‘d still puke on her feet, though.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“You'll marry the earl and carry on with the nephew on the side."
"Grandmother!”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“There were a thousand ways to make an idiot of oneself, with new opportunities arising every day. It was exhausting trying to avoid them all.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“The slanted light of dawn was rippling through the windowpane, and Miss Anne Sainsbury was huddled beneath her thin blanket, wondering, as she often did, where she would find money for her next meal."

That was really good. Even he wanted to know what happened to Miss Sainsbury, and he was making it up.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“I miss my dog."
...
"What was his name again?"
"Mouse."
"That was very unkind of you."
"Naming him mouse?"
"Isn't he a greyhound?"
"I could have named hum Turtle."
"Frederick!"...
"It's better than Frederic," Annabel said, "Good heavens, that's my brother's name.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“This is none of your concern,' his uncle spat.
'I beg to differ,' Sebastian said quietly. 'A lady in distress is always my concern.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“Dogs deserve proper names."
"Cats, too?"
"Cats are entirely different. They catch mice.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“Today I glory in my sixdom."
"Sixdom?"
"Sixitude."
Annabel started to grin.
"Sixulation," Louisa proclaimed.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“He wondered if everyone’s lives had a dividing point. A moment which sat clearly between before and after.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

“A lady must have her own private reserve of secrets and strength,” her grandmother continued. “Trust me.” She took a sip of her drink, let out a contented exhale, and took another. “Once you are married you will understand what I mean.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You