Julia Quinn
What happened to your face?" Harriet asked. "It was a misunderstanding," Daniel said smoothly, wondering how long it might take for his bruises to heal. He did not think he was particularly vain, but the questions were growing tiresome. "A misunderstanding?" Elizabeth echoed. "With an anvil?" "Oh, stop," Harriet admonished her. "I think he looks very dashing." "As if he dashed into an anvil." "Pay no attention," Harriet said to him. "She lacks imagination.Collection: Thinking
She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons.Collection: Men
Very well,” he said with a small sigh. “Ladies today are so very capable. It breaks my hea rt, really.” He leaned in, almost as if sharing a secret. “No one likes to feel superfluous.” Grace just stared at him. “Rendered mute by my grace and charm,” he said, stepping back to allow them to exit. “It happens all the time. Really, I shouldn‟t be allowed near the ladies. I have such a vexing effect on you.Collection: Grace
Daniel immediately knelt at her side, pulling her close. “It’s all right,” he murmured. “Everything is going to be all right.” Anne shook her head. “No, it’s not.” She looked up, her eyes shining with love. “It’s going to be so much better.Collection: Eye
Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.Collection: Hurt
If you do not apologize to Lady Honoria,” Marcus said, his voice so mild as to be terrifying, “I will kill you.” There was a collective gasp, and Daisy faked a swoon, sliding elegantly into Iris, who promptly stepped aside and let her hit the floor. “Oh, come now,” Mr. Grimston said. “Surely it won’t come to pistols at dawn.” “I’m not talking about a duel,” Marcus said. “I mean I will kill you right here.Collection: Mean
Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me... to me..." He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.Collection: Heaven
Simon stopped breathing until her forefinger touched his nipple, and then his hand shot up to cover hers. "I want you," he said. Her eyes flicked downward, and her lips curved ever so slightly. "I know." "No," he groaned, pulling her closer. "I want to be in your heart. I want-" His entire body shuddered when their skin touched. "I want to be in your soul.Collection: Heart
And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click. The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out. "You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door. "Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.Collection: Taken
Perriwickturned to Penelope as he set the tray down on a table. "If I might be so bold, my lady-" "Perriwick!" Blake roared. "If I hear the phrase 'if I might be so bold' one more time, as God is my witness, I'm going to toss you into the channel!" "Oh dear," Penelope said. "Perhaps he does have the fever, after all.Perriwick , what do you think?" The butler reached for Blake's forehead, only to have his hand nearly bitten off. "Touch me and die," Blake snarled.Collection: Thinking
To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.Collection: Men
He blinked a few times, each motion so slow that he was never quite sure if he’d get his eyes open again. He wasn’t wearing a shirt. Funny how he was only just realizing it. Funnier still that he couldn’t seem to summon any concern for her maidenly sensibilities. She might be blushing. He couldn’t tell. It was too dark to see. But it didn’t matter. This was Honoria. She was a good egg. A sensible egg. She wouldn’t be scarred forever by the sight of his chest.Collection: Eye
I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.Collection: Giving
Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.Collection: Men
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.Collection: Writing
She glared at him. "I'm not asking you to apologize." "Well, that's a relief.I doubt I could find the words.Collection: Doubt
The only words I'll allow from your mouth are, 'Oh, Gareth,' and 'Yes, Gareth.'" "What about 'More, Gareth'?" "He almost kept a straith face. "That will be acceptable.Collection: Mouths
When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.Collection: Body
A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?Collection: Exciting
Caroline, do you value your neck?" "Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?" "Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.Collection: Necks
But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete. Either that or a cat burglar.Collection: Cat
Everyone has secrets. Especially me.Collection: Secret
Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?Collection: Mother
Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.Collection: Book
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.Collection: Falling In Love
It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?Collection: Needs
Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache—the kind that one could almost—but never quite—ignore.Collection: Pain
In this room,in this minite,she was his everythingCollection: Rooms
If you want to know if a gentleman loves you,” her mother said, “there is only one true way to be sure.” “It’s in his kiss,” her mother whispered. “It’s all there, in his kiss.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Heart
Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.Collection: Men
Your heart is free now." "No," he whispered. "It's yours.Collection: Heart
Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.Collection: Thinking
When you walk into a room,” he said softly, “the air changes.Collection: Air
Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.Collection: Mistake
It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider.Collection: Dream
You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well." "Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?" "Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him. "Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.Collection: Dark
He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heartCollection: Heart
When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.Collection: Sweet
There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.Collection: Things In Life
She'd met Colin on a Monday. She'd kissed him on a Friday. Twelve years later. She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.Collection: Friday
There were only so many ways a man‟s heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldn‟t survive another puncture.Collection: Heart
It has oft been said that physicians make the worst patients, but it is the opinion of This Author that any man makes a terrible patient. One might say it takes patience to be a patient, and heaven knows, the males of our species lack an abundance of patience.Collection: Men
Did you know I dream about your hair? I use to say it was the color of the sun at sunset, but I'm wrong. It's brighter than the sun, just as you are.Collection: Dream
The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined BachelorsCollection: Daughter
You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta BarettCollection: Kissing
You're in a rather odd mood today." I'm soaking wet, Eloise." No need to snap at me about it, I didn't force you to walk across town in the rain." It wasn't raining when I left,". There was something about a sibling that brought out the eight-year-old in a body. I'm sure the sky was gray," Clearly, she had a bit of the eight-year-old in her as well.Collection: Sibling
Tonight," he whispered, his voice hoarse and hot in her ear, "I will make you mine." -Simon to DaphneCollection: Voice
Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to VioletCollection: Husband