Julia Quinn Quotes

“You might live here at Penbrook Park, and you might share lessons with my daughters, but you are nothing... and that is all you will ever be. Don’t you ever, ever make the mistake of thinking you are as good as the rest of us.”

″...he had to admit to himself that as time passed, his memories of that night grew less vivid, and he could no longer recall his mystery woman’s voice with perfect clarity. Besides, Sophie’s accent, while exceptionally refined for a housemaid, was not as uppercrust as hers had been.′

“She was utterly radiant, and Benedict suddenly realized that it was because she looked so happy. Happy to be where she was, happy to be who she was.”

″...if one read Whistledown often enough, one could almost feel a part of London Society without actually attending any balls.”

“If you wish for things you can’t possibly hope for, you’re only going to be disappointed.”

“You might live here at Penbrook Park, and you might share lessons with my daughters, but you are nothing... and that is all you will ever be. Don’t you ever, ever make the mistake of thinking you are as good as the rest of us.”

“You might live here at Penbrook Park, and you might share lessons with my daughters, but you are nothing... and that is all you will ever be. Don’t you ever, ever make the mistake of thinking you are as good as the rest of us.”

“This woman knew joy. And Benedict had to know her.”

″‘Just once,’ Mrs. Gibbons said, ‘for just one night, you will be the belle of the ball.‘”

“I knew nothing but love and devotion while I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier.”

“Don’t you worry, my little man. I shall love you always. I’ll teach you your letters and your numbers, and how to sit on a horse.”

“Your father is still ruling you from the grave.”

″‘I can’t even look at him,’ he gasped. ‘I can’t even bear to look at him.‘”

“The household prayed for the duke, who so wanted an heir, and a few remembered to pray for the duchess, who had grown thin and frail even as her belly had grown round and wide.”

“Simon felt the duke’s rejection in his very bones, felt a peculiar kind of pain enter his body and creep around his heart. And, as hatred flooded his body and poured from his eyes, he made a solemn vow. If he couldn’t be the son his father wanted, then by God, he’d be the exact opposite…”

“To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.”

“I’m unmarried because everyone sees me as a friend. No one ever has any romantic interest in me.”

“Really, if people weren’t so intent on keeping young women completely ignorant of the realities of marriage, scenes like this could be avoided.”

“Many a woman has been ruined by a single kiss.”