“Gregory,” she said, “you cannot leave me here. What if someone finds you and removes you from the house? Who will know I am here? And what if…and what if…and then what if…”
He smiled, enjoying her officiousness too much to actually listen to her words. She was definitely herself again.
“When this is all over,” he said, “I shall bring you a sandwich.”
That stopped her short. “A sandwich? A sandwich?”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the
human race would have died out generations earlier.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“He stepped toward her, and her heart just ached from it. His face was so handsome, and so dear, and so perfectly wonderfully familiar. She knew the slope of his cheeks, and the exact shade of his eys, brownish near the iris, melting into green at the edge.
And his mouth-she knew that mouth, the look of it, the feel of it. She knew his smile, and she knew his frown, and she knew-
she knew far to much.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother.
“Vocabulary and comprehension were never her strong suits.”
Violet rolled her eyes. “Every day I marvel that the two of you managed to reach adulthood.”
“Afraid we’d kill each other?” Gregory quipped.
“No, that I’d do the job myself.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“But when he said he couldn’t shoot, it just seemed to make an odd sort of
sense to tell him that Hermione couldn’t dance. It fit, really. Men were supposed to shoot, and women
were supposed to dance, and trusty best friends were supposed to keep their foolish mouths shut.
Clearly, all three of them needed a bit of instruction.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“Yes.” She sighed again, with even more drama, not that Gregory would have imagined it possible. “It is
all so romantic,” she added. “The bride, the groom…”
“Both are considered standard in the ceremony, I understand.”
His mother shot him a peevish look. “How could I have raised a son who is so unromantic?”
Gregory decided there could not possibly be an answer to that.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“You can't fix this,' she ground out.
'That is not true. There is nothing anyone could hold over you that could not be overcome.'
'By what?' she demanded. 'Rainbows and sprites and the everlasting good wishes of your family? It won't work, Gregory. It won't. The Bridgertons may be powerful, but you cannot change the past, and you cannot bend the future to suit your whims ... You don't understand. You can't possibly. You are all so happy, so perfect.'
'We are not.'
'You are. You don't even know that you are, and you can't conceive that the rest of us are not, that we might struggle and try and be good and still not receive what we wish for.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“She's my little sister. Mine to torture and mine to protect.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“He loved her. He'd said it, and even though she couldn't quite believe it, she believed *him*.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“Lucy nodded dutifully, all the while making a mental list of all the places she would rather be. Paris, Venice, Greece, although weren’t they at war? No matter. She would still rather be in Greece.
(On the Way to the Wedding, Bridgertons #8, by Julia Quinn)”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“What did one say when a gentleman confessed to a shortcoming? She couldn’t recall ever hearing one do so before, but surely, sometime in the course of history, some gentleman had.
(Lucy about Gregory, On the Way to the Wedding, Bridgertons #8, by Julia Quinn).”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“we regard the earldom as an important family honor. But my father is a good man precisely because he is a good man, not because he possesses an ancient title. And as for Lord Blackwood, I find his title all the more appealing because it represents the nobility of the man standing before you, not of some long-dead ancestor.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“He knew her, he realized. He truly knew her. Not just the usual things. In fact, he didn't know the usual things. He did not know her favorite color. Nor cold he guess her favorite animal or food.
But somehow it didn't matter if he didn't knw if she preferred pink or blue or purple or black. He knew her heart. He wanted her heart.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“That ought to do it.' He stood up and held out his hand to her, but she ignored it, rolling over so that she could sit on the grassy knoll. He stood there awkwardly until she patted the spot on the grass next to her. He hesitated, and Belle finally groaned and slapped her down on the ground with considerable force. 'Oh, please,' she said in a semi-irritated voice. 'I'm not going to bite.' John sat down.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“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, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“I simply refuse to deal with idiots...It has cut my social obligations in half.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“She didn't want to be commended for knowing how to settle for second-best. That was like winning a prize for the prettiest shoes in a footrace. Irrelevant and not the point.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“she decided to watch the leaves on the tree across the way. How many would fall off in such a strong wind? ... She now knew why people made such a fuss about weddings. It was to keep the bride's mind occupied, lest she fall into strange mental chasms.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“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, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“Las mujeres eran criaturas misteriosas. Si pudieran aprender a decir lo que realmente querían decir, el mundo sería de lejos un lugar más sencillo.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“Hermione uzanıp yanağına dokundu, kederle gülümsüyordu. “Gördüğüm en mutsuz gelinsin.”
Lucy gözlerini kapadı. “Mutsuz değilim. Ben sadece şey hissediyorum...”
Ama ne hissettiğini bilmiyordu. Ne hissetmesi gerekiyordu ki?Kimse bunun için eğitmemişti onu.Bütün eğitimi boyunca; dadısı,mürebbiyesi ve Bayan Moss’un Okulu’nda geçirdiği üç yıl boyunca kimse ona bunun dersini vermemişti. Neden kimse bunun dikiş nakıştan ve yerel danslardan daha önemli olduğunu fark etmemişti?
“Ben...” Artık anlamıştı. “Ben veda ediyormuş gibi hissediyorum.”
Hermione hayretle gözlerini kırpıştırdı. “Kime?”
Kendime...”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“İnsanın umutsuzluğunun yalnızca Tanrı’nın ismiyle anlatılabileceği durumlar da vardır.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“He smiled.
Her stomach felt strange.
She tried to smile back. She really should be going.
So naturally, she did not move.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“Lucy could feel herself slipping, sliding into need, falling into a hazy place of love and desire where right was not quite identifiable from wrong.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
“in his direction. “She is being”
― Julia Quinn, quote from On the Way to the Wedding
Julia Quinn
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“Want me to roll you?” Tom asked. “Not funny.” But Prophet was rock hard. Tom stalking over to him and crowding him wasn’t helping. “You still have that duct tape?” “Yeah. Why?” “Come on, bebe. Let’s play gator.” Prophet hated the way his body responded yes—eagerly—to that question. “Think you wanna. ’M’I wrong?” Tom’s drawl was thick as hell, went right down Prophet’s spine, as the man’s hand snaked around Prophet’s waist and pushed his own hard cock against Prophet’s cargo pant-clad one. “Yes.”
― S.E. Jakes, quote from Long Time Gone
“Passion can sometimes bring out qualities in a person that they never knew they possessed.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from A Little Too Far
“This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills and a son and a roof with three shingles and a pretty birdpath made of stone that I sometimes see Mrs.Shaw, her tied back with a scarf, cleaning with a dainty skimmer.
How does this man, a man like this, like any of them, come to walk at night and stand in a girl’s backyard, and then, smoking and looking up, suddenly feel himself helpless to bher bright magic?”
― Megan Abbott, quote from The End of Everything
“Much worse. We couldn’t get any of those to come at all. Some of them are visibly fused. Some idiot must have welded them.” “Welded, yes. But not by some idiot. By the sun.” “Leo, it doesn’t get that hot—” “Not directly. What you’re seeing is spontaneous vacuum diffusion welding. Metal molecules are evaporating off the surfaces of the pieces in the vacuum. Slowly, to be sure, but it’s a measurable phenomenon. On the clamped areas they migrate into their neighboring surfaces and eventually achieve quite a nice bond. A little faster for the hot pieces on the sun side, a little slower for the cold pieces in the shade—but I’ll bet some of those clamps have been in place for twenty years.” “Oh. But what do we do about them?” “They’ll have to be cut.” Pramod’s lips pursed in worry. “That will slow things down.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from Falling Free
“What I know is, you have a better chance in life-of surviving it-if you tolerate loss well;manage not to be a cynic through it all;...
to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good,even if the good is not simple to find. We try, as my sister said. We try.”
― Richard Ford, quote from Canada
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