CJ Quinn Quotes

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.

You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist.

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 heart

There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.

In this room,in this minite,she was his everything

He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.

But when Anthony kissed her, she felt as if she were losing her mind. And when he kissed her twice, she wasn't even sure if she wanted it back!

Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

Your heart is free now." "No," he whispered. "It's yours.

Love is blind,” Harriet quipped. “But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.

She'd met Colin on a Monday. She'd kissed him on a Friday. Twelve years later. She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.

Tell me something wicked.

He wondered if she'd mind if he threw her down on the blanket and tore off her clothing. (..) She looked heartbreakingly innocent. Alex sighed. She'd probably mind.

I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside.

Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

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.

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?

Olivia: You didn't even know I was there! Harry: Excuse me, yes I did.

I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is most peculiar.

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?

It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider.

It was funny, he reflected later, how one’s life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it’s simply ... not

I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.

In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.

When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.

Weakness never got anyone anywhere.

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

I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

Click. The door swung open. "Three," James said with a slightly self-satisfied smile. "Well done," Caroline said. He smiled back at her. "I've never met a woman or a lock that didn't love me.

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.

He loved her. He wanted her. He needed her. And he needed her now.

Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?

You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.

You’re going to be my grandmother.” “You silly child. In my heart, I’ve been your grandmother for years. I’ve just been waiting for you to make it official.

A lot could happen in a week. Just look at the last one.

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.

Francesca: It's still a bit cold yet. Michael: Never stopped John and me. Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen.