Julia Quinn Quotes

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?'

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.

You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet.

My parents themselves had a love marriage.

My dad met my mom just once before their marriage.

I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

When I got married for the third time, and I had children from my other marriage there, that's what I said when it came time in the ceremony for me to say something. I said, "I'm grateful to everybody that participated, everybody that participated in my life that got me to this moment. And everything was dead-right because everything is right now."

Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired. "No, I'm not," she replied. "Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience.

Go and change your gown, Mary," Daniel interjected. "I'm partial to gold. If you've a gown in that color, wear it to please me. If not, white will do well enough. I'm wedding you, Lady Mary." Lord Daniel Ferguson caught Lady Mary before she hit the floor. He wasn't at all irritated that his intended had just fainted dead away, and he actually let out a full burst of laughter as he swept Mary up into his arms and held her against his chest. "She's overcome with gratitude, Alec," Daniel called out to his friend. "Aye, Daniel, I can see she is," Alec answered.

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.

You realize how much the relationship when kids are young can suffer. And it's important to make sure that you are able to spend some time with each other. As a father, the best thing you can do for the kid is to love the mom. Even as a parent, I believe that loving the mother is the most important thing. And even parents who maybe aren't together I think that's important for them as well to respect each other and to be kind to each other, because I think it does so much in who they would pick to be around, or how they feel about themselves.