Queen Charlotte Quotes

“From the moment I saw you trying to go over the wall, I have loved you desperately. I cannot breathe when you are not near. I love you, Charlotte.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“I love you, Charlotte.” He took her face in his hands. “My heart calls your name.”
― Shonda Rhimes, Queen Charlotte

“George, I will stand with you between the heavens and the earth. I will tell you where you are.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“I have absolutely no intention of helping you.”
Now she was irritated. He’d been so polite and chatty, giving every indication that he was a gentleman, when all he was really doing was wasting her time.
“I am a lady in distress,” she snapped. “You refuse to help a lady in distress?”
“I refuse when that lady in distress is trying to go over a wall so she does not have to marry me.”
― Shonda Rhimes, Queen Charlotte

“And I have kissed you but once.”
“At our wedding.”
“I have been longing to do it again.”
Her eyes met his. “You have?”
“Every minute”—he stepped closer—“of every day.”
“Why?”
“Why?” he echoed.
She gave a little nod.
“Because you exist,” he said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. “I saw you, and I met you, and I spoke with you. I am enchanted. I can barely breathe for wanting to kiss you again.”
― Shonda Rhimes, Queen Charlotte

“Just George? Farmer George? Come. Hide from the heavens with me.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“This girl – this woman – she was a wonder. She was going to change history. She already had.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“Great love can make miracles.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“We are women. And the men who hold our fates hardly conceive that we have desires and dreams of our own. If we are ever to live the lives we want, we have to make them conceive it. Our bravery, the force of our will, shall be their proof.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“She was the key to his health. She fed his happiness.
She would be the making of him.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“She was his comet, his shooting star. She sparkled like the heavens, and when she smiled it felt like mathematical equations sliding into place. The world in balance, each side properly weighted.
She was everything that was beauty, and everything that was brilliant, and he was –
He was not well.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“She could not be tamed. It would be a crime to even try.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“He’d thought she was pretty.
That was all he’d thought, really, when he saw her standing by the wall. But then she spoke.
And he was lost forever.
When Charlotte spoke, the world came alive. She was fierce and stubborn and shockingly forthright. Her intelligence transformed her pretty face into something incandescent. Truly, he did not know a woman could be so beautiful.
She was a star. She was a comet. She was everything that sparkled in the night sky, brought down to earth by magic the church swore did not exist.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“Idiots. The world was populated with idiots. She’d long since learned the truth of that, along with the depressing fact that there was very little she could do about it.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“You did not go over the wall,” he said. She smiled. “No, George. I did not go over the wall.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“Hello, Charlotte,” he said. “I am George.”
― Shonda Rhimes, Queen Charlotte

“He was her love, and he would always be her love.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“We are one crown. His weight is mine, and mine is his. One. Crown.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“You have half a husband, Charlotte. Half a life. I cannot give you the future you deserve. Not a full me. Not a full marriage. Only half. Half a man. Half a King. Half a life.”
“If what we have is half, then we shall make it the very best half. I love you. It is enough.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“There is something about the heavens. In this world we live in where I am given so much power and attention, it is good to remember that I am but a bit of dust on a small dot in the universe.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“I desire the King’s sanity as fervently as Your Majesty does.”
“I care not for his sanity. I care for his happiness. His soul. Let him be mad if mad is what he needs.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“Is a broken king really better than a mad one?”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“If you wish to learn something, then you must.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“How did you explain that some people were special? That they were somehow more than everyone else?”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“And then, very sweetly, he kissed her. It tasted like the past. It tasted like her very heart.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“He kissed her as if he could not get close enough, as if he could never get close enough.
As if he would never let her go.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“Be grateful that I do not order you destroyed.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“It was a soft kiss, a gentle kiss, but it was also a promise. Of love, of respect, and of determination.
Together they would change the world.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“You surprise me. I always thought you were a quiet one.”
“I am not quiet. It is simply that my husband is loud.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“What?” she asked.
He shook his head, as if he could not quite believe his own thoughts.
“You are incomparable. No one told me you would be this beautiful.”
― Shonda Rhimes, Queen Charlotte