Quote

Do I look like a mess?” she asked. He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered.

Julia Quinn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Julia Quinn
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 12
Author
Writer
Evergreen State
Julie Cotler
Julie Pottinger
Mess
Asked
Look
Looks
Like
Nodded
Whispered

More quotes by Julia Quinn

Image
Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it.
Julia Quinn
Image
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.
Julia Quinn
Image
This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.
Julia Quinn
Image
Everyone has secrets. Especially me.
Julia Quinn
Image
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.
Julia Quinn
Image
I have friends who have children, and they have told me how remarkable it is to have a new life that is a piece of your own flesh anf blood. But I -- I realized that I didn't love her because she was a piece of me, I loved her because she was a piece of you.
Julia Quinn
Image
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
Julia Quinn
Image
Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.
Julia Quinn
Image
It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one.
Julia Quinn
Image
James - Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit? Elizabeth - Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.
Julia Quinn
Image
She'd met Colin on a Monday. She'd kissed him on a Friday. Twelve years later. She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.
Julia Quinn
Image
People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.
Julia Quinn
Image
Don’t look so upset,” Hyacinth said, once it was just the two of them again. “You’re quite a catch.” He looked at her assessingly. “Is one meant to say such things quite so directly?” She shrugged. “Not to men one is trying to impress.” “Touché, Miss Bridgerton.” She sighed happily. “My three favorite words.” Of that, he had no doubt.
Julia Quinn
Image
When you walk into a room,” he said softly, “the air changes.
Julia Quinn
Image
It’s a curse, really,” Lady Danbury said. “I’m the only person I know my age who has perfect hearing.” “Most would call that a blessing.” She snorted. “Not with that musicale looming over the horizon.
Julia Quinn
Image
She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.
Julia Quinn
Image
I thought you wanted food, she gasped. I do, he murmured, tugging on the bodice of her dress. But I want you more.
Julia Quinn
Image
You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield
Julia Quinn
Image
Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious bowl of hot, sticky porridge-he had mucked out the stable stalls, milked a cow, been pecked by three separate hens, weeded a vegetable garden, and fallen into a trough.
Julia Quinn
Image
In his heart, she’d been smiling for him. But now she was smiling at Colin Bridgerton, he of the famous charm and sparkling green eyes.
Julia Quinn