Quotes from Whitney, My Love

“You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you."
"I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin.
"And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“Clayton," she said softly, her voice threaded with tears, "when Vanessa asked about my accomplishments tonight, I forgot to mention that I do have one. And it's--it's so splendid that it compensates for my lack of all the others."
Stephen and Clayton grinned at each other, neither of them hearing the emotion that clogged her voice. "What splendid accomplishments is that, little one?" Clayton asked.
Her shoulders hunched forward and began to shake. "I made you love me," she whispered brokenly. "Somehow, some way, I actually made you love me.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“If I ever think you are even considering leaving me again, no matter how good you reasons, I'll have you locked in your rooms and the doors barricaded, so help me God." He lifted her foot and began to dry it.
Her voice shaking, Whitney asked, "Will you stay locked in there with me?"
He raised her dainty foot to his jaw and tenderly laid his cheek against it, then turned his head and kissed it. "Yes," he whispered.

-Clayton Westmoreland”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find that our dreams and memories quiet surpassed reality.

-Lady Anne, Whitney's aunt”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“I want more from life than that and I have more to give.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“Whitney: Where is your home?
Clayton: Wherever you are.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has."

-Clayton Westmoreland”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“God help him." He chortled. "He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it."
-Dr. Whitticomb”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever kissed her, feeling faint with joy when he began to kiss her back, his mouth moving with fierce tenderness, then opening with fiery demand over hers, until their breaths were mingled gasps, and they were straining to one another.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped.
"God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel.
Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“I ought to break your neck!" Clayton interrupted.
Too late, Whitney realized that she shouldn't have been standing all this time on her "injured" knee.
"Allow me to congratulate you on a fine day's work, Madam," he said sternly. "In less than twelve hours, you've brought Whitticomb to your side and Cuthbert to your feet.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“Not even in my weakest moment have I considered letting you go.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“Missing you? I could cheerfully murder you.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“Allow me to presume upon this new friendship of ours by telling you that denying your fiance your company in order to gain whatever it is you want, is not only foolish but risky. It was obvious to me that his grace has a great affection for you, and I truly think he would give you anything you want if you simply gave him that lovely smile of yours and asked him for it. Deceit and deviousness do you no credit, my child, and what's more, they will get you absolutely nowhere with the duke. He has known females far more skilled in deception and trickery than you, and all those ladies ever got from him was the opportunity to amuse him for a very brief time. While you, by being direct and forthright as I sense that you are, have gained the very thing those other females most desired. You have gained the offer of his grace's hand in marriage."
-Dr. Whitticomb”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“In one of her more philosophical moments, she decided that the reason virginity was so prized for a bride was because early man must have realized that a bride who knew what was in store for her on her wedding night, would not be smiling quite so radiantly when she walked down that aisle!”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“Where is your home?" she asked after a long, comfortable silence.

"Wherever you are.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“If you aren’t a living example of ‘the devil quoting scripture.’ ”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

“I thought you were the loveliest, most enchanting creature God ever created.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love

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