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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2abf6f2 | Once Spencer was safely out of the shop, John yanked her around to face him and said, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?' Before she had a chance to answer him, Alex showed up at his side, grabbed Emma similarly and hissed, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?' Persephone looked at Dunford and smiled, waiting for her turn, but much to her disappointment, he just stood there and glared at all three women. | Julia Quinn | ||
| acd2a2c | It is almost incredible that towards the end of the twentieth century, biblical fundamentalism made such a comeback in America. No less astounding is its alliance with the small body of Jewish fundamentalists in Israel to further their respective apocalyptic dreams. | Joscelyn Godwin | ||
| e142370 | Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. | Animals | ||
| e110c8e | I hate maps.' 'Really?' She sounded stunned, and maybe just a little bit delighted by his admission. 'Why?' He told her the truth. 'I haven't the talent for reading them.' 'And you, a highwayman.' 'What has that to do with it?' 'Don't you need to know where you're going?' 'Not nearly so much as I need to know where I've been ... There are certain areas of the country - possibly all of Kent, to be honest - it is best that I avoid.' 'This is .. | Julia Quinn | ||
| fb03427 | did this to him. Only her. It was a humbling thought. Gritting his teeth against his baser urges, Benedict began to move within her, slowly stroking when what he really wanted to do was let go completely. "Sophie, Sophie," he grunted, repeating her name, trying to remind himself that this time was about . He was here to please needs, not his own. It would be perfect. It had to be perfect. He needed her to love this. He needed her to l.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 20b21e2 | As she walked slowly down the hall, she could hear them arguing - nothing violent, nothing impassioned. But then, she'd not have expected that. Cavendish tempers ran cold, and they were far more likely to attack with a frozen barb than a heated cry. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 301de75 | It had been a marvelous childhood. Damn near perfect. If he was not leading the life he'd anticipated, if he sometimes lay in bed and wondered what the hell he was doing robbing coaches in the dead of night - at least he knew that the road to this point had been paved with his own choices, his own flaws. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 07b3fd0 | She looked delighted by the prospect. Delighted that he might find the perfect woman. And there it was. His faith in a higher power reaffirmed. Truly, moments of this ironic perfection could not come about by accident. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 74f33d5 | He just wanted to see it. From afar. To see what might have been, what he was glad hadn't been. But maybe should have been. | Julia Quinn | ||
| d899b5a | One would think her tired mind would go utterly blank, but the opposite was true. She could not stop thinking about the highwayman. And his kiss. And his identity. And his kiss. And if she would meet him again. And that he'd kissed her. And- | Julia Quinn | ||
| e9f5da5 | Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we?' Colin asked, breaking into his (admittedly tame) fantasies. 'No,' Michael said, not appreciating the vague hint of condescension in the other man's voice, '/we/ are not.' Colin chuckled ... 'Just testing you,' he said, leaning back in his chair. 'To see if I have spontaneously divided into two separate beings?' Michael bit off. 'No, of course not,' Colin said with a suspiciously easy gr.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| d6018ca | See?" Margaret smiled, looking terribly pleased with herself. "That's why you're in such a dither." His expression moved to the comical side of haughty. "Men do not dither." Her expression moved to the ridiculous side of arch. "I beg your pardon, but I am looking at a dithering male as we speak." They stared at each other across the table for several seconds, until Angus finally said, "If you raise your eyebrows any farther, I'm going to ha.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 524cbbb | You're insane," she breathed. Angus peeled off his sodden coat. "That particular refrain is growing tedious." "It's difficult to argue with the truth," she muttered. Then she looked up and saw what he was doing. "And don't remove your coat!" "The alternative is death by pneumonia," he said mildly. "I suggest you remove yours as well." "Only if you leave the room." "And stand naked in the hall? I don't think so." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 55c18e0 | As much as you vex me, I would like to see you locate your sister." His lips spread into an easy grin. "Why, Miss Pennypacker, I think you might have admitted that you like me." "I said," she said pointedly, "that you vex me." "Well, of course. I do it on purpose." That earned him a glare. He leaned forward and chucked her chin. "Vexing you is the most fun I've had in ages." "It isn't fun for me," she muttered. "Of course it is," he said jo.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 2bad946 | So Hermione was the siren, and Lucy was the trusty friend, and all was right with the world. Or if not right, then at least quite predictable. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 75d3cbe | Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas children you never know where you are. | Animals | ||
| d2fdc10 | You're insufferable." "Perhaps," he allowed, "but everyone loves me so well." She threw a piece of cheese at him. He caught it and popped it into his mouth, grinning wolfishly as he chewed. "You do like to throw things, don't you?" "Funny that I never felt the inclination to do so until I met you." "And here everyone told me I brought out the best in them." Margaret started to say something and then just sighed. "What now?" Angus asked, cle.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| a6d123c | Art,' she said. 'My second favorite subject.' She gave him a shrewd look. 'You wish for me to ask you what your favorite is.' 'Am I so obvious?' 'You are only obvious when you wish to be.' 'And alas, it still doesn't work. You have not asked me what my favorite subject is.' 'Because,' she returned, sitting down, 'I am quite certain the answer will contain something highly inappropriate.' He placed one hand on his chest, the dramatic gesture.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 122f1f6 | Angus felt himself filled with an age-old male terror -as if somehow his body knew what his mind refused to consider- that she might be The One, that somehow, no matter how hard he fought, she'd be pestering him for all eternity. And worse, that if she ever took it upon herself to stop pestering him, he might have to track her down and chain her to his side until she started up again. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 71d052b | There was a very slight lilt to it, too, attesting to a childhood spent far from Lincolnshire, and Grace felt herself sway, as if she could fall forward, lightly, softly, and land somewhere else. Far, far from here. | Julia Quinn | ||
| faca5bd | It was the sort of kiss that seduced with subtlety, sent tingles through her body and left her desperate for more. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 07397b3 | Nothing had the power to irritate like the reflection of one's own behavior in someone else. | Julia Quinn | ||
| f164046 | There's a kind of grief that just eats one up. It weighs one down. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 82441f0 | How can anything in the world seem bleak when one is eating bacon? | Julia Quinn | ||
| 986cf5c | No, she didn't need someone perfect. She just needed someone perfect for her. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 4d16dad | It was not that he'd changed her; all of the seeds were already there. But with him, she grew. | Julia Quinn | ||
| b5b666c | Talvez aquilo fosse a definicao do amor, afinal. Querer uma pessoa, precisar dela e a adorar ate mesmo nos momentos de furia, quando se tinha vontade de amarra-la a cama so para que ela nao saisse e causasse ainda mais problemas. | bridgertons colin-bridgerton julia-quinn love os-segredos-de-colin-bridgerton penelope-featherington portuguese romancing-mister-bridgerton | Julia Quinn | |
| e3eaa67 | narrowed | Julia Quinn | ||
| 3c7b39a | Unmarried Lady Sorts of Things By Lady Olivia Bevelstoke, Unmarried Lady Wear pastel colors (and be quite glad if you possess the correct complexion for such hues). Smile and keep your opinions to yourself (with whatever success you are able). Do what your parents tell you to do. Accept the consequences when you don't. Find a husband who won't bother to tell you what to do. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 054f363 | she'd once read a poem that said the unexpected moment was always sweeter. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 88d3631 | She hadn't expected the world to be handed to her upon a golden platter, but she'd always assumed that if she worked hard enough for something, treated everyone the way she would like to be treated, then she would be rewarded. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 16d5c39 | Just think. We're whizzing through the universe. | space the-passion-of-artemisia universe | Susan Vreeland | |
| 80ddaee | In this universe where I knew now we were not the center, where I was as insignificant and unremarkable as a grain of salt seen from a tower, God still allowed me to take my next breath. | universe | Susan Vreeland | |
| eb6d699 | Which one is really my child? The one I brought forth with my own groans who has no liking for the thing I love most in all the world, or the stranger's child whom fate placed in my life, the one who is absorbing and treasuring every word I give her, whose eyes are learning every day, whom I would love to teach... | mother teacher teaching | Susan Vreeland | |
| cc94726 | I know. But it's got to be this way, that she isn't sure, so people looking at it a long time from now, women and men too, might feel badly, might even weep that at some ignorant time there was once a woman raped who was pressured, even expected, to kill herself. | metoo rape woman | Susan Vreeland | |
| 3aac56d | To celebrate, I decorated my mess tin with a yellow dandelion blossom. It looked like the sun I so rarely see. Van Gogh would have liked it. | Susan Vreeland | ||
| 83eee21 | Andi zam'lcha. Ustata mu se zatvori kato zatr'shnata vrata. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3f214e9 | A year passes like a revolving wheel, and when the spoke of January comes round again, it finds itself in a different place. And so with pain. It does not leave us where it found us. | Susan Vreeland | ||
| 615ce4e | I leaned out the window to feel the night's deep blue, the same dark air that surrounded him in Genoa or Paris or wherever he was. I would give a great deal to know what he was thinking right at this moment. If a person could know for certain what the other person was thinking or doing, then loneliness might cease to exist in the world. | humanity loneliness | Susan Vreeland | |
| e648632 | At some times in our lives, our passion makes us perpetrators of hurt and loss. At other times we are the ones who are hurt--all in the name of art. Sometimes we get what we want. Sometimes we pay for another to get what he or she wants. | pain passion | Susan Vreeland | |
| ea7d515 | Look and look and don't ever forget. Now, close your eyes. Here, give me your hand. And just feel. Can you feel the Earth move? | Susan Vreeland | ||
| e04a5e9 | Palmira. She's like an apparition floating unknowingly into her future,' I said. 'Here for too brief a time. | daughters time | Susan Vreeland | |
| 7b15e2d | That's what great art is supposed to do--help us to live in the spirit and die at peace. | Susan Vreeland | ||
| 0ef0fb1 | But even one-way love, fleeting love, is better than no love at all. I'm grateful for having had the feeling. | Susan Vreeland |