Julia Quinn Quotes

The more I think of you, the less I think of you.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other . . . just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you . . . and I think death would show it to them. I'm glad I found out in life.

Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall in love they keep themselves at a distance.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I might love.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

I admire the hell out of her. You can't have sex with someone you admire.