Julia Quinn Quotes

Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me... Im not okay ...Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.

The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of touch, she truly doesn't know who she is. This is one of the greatest tragedies of shame cover-ups: not only does the person hide from others, she also hides from herself.

Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.