Julia Quinn Quotes

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

Life is to blame for everything.

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

I love Will Smith and Jada Pinkett. You see the love, and you can see the support, and they partner on things and produce together. But she has a life, and he has a life.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

Long John Silver's wife, Short, who said to John, If the shoe fits... Never got a dinner!

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.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

The wages of sin is alimony.