Frases de Julia Quinn

“Hombres. El día que aprendieran a aceptar un error, se convertirían en mujeres.”

“Puedo vivir con tu odio —dijo a la puerta cerrada—, pero no puedo vivir sin ti.”

“No, no necesitaba a alguien perfecto. Sólo necesitaba a alguien perfecto para ella.”

“Sólo había otra única mujer en el mundo a la que le había visto solamente la parte inferior de la cara.
La sonrisa era igual; el atractivo hoyuelo en el extremo del mentón era igual. Todo era igual.
Sophie era la mujer del vestido plateado, la mujer del baile de máscaras.
De pronto todo cobró sentido. Sólo dos veces en su vida había sentido esa atracción inexplicable, casi mística, por una mujer. Le había parecido extraordinario encontrar a dos, cuando en su corazón siempre había creído que sólo había una mujer perfecta para él.
Su corazón no se había equivocado.
Sólo había una.”

“Ella pareció indecisa, de modo que le tironeó la mano, acercándola más, no más de una pulgada, pero en cierto modo tuvo la impresión de que ella estaba a sólo la distancia de un beso.”

“Y él, que se había acostado con incontables mujeres, de repente comprendió que hasta ese momento sólo había sido un niño.
Porque jamás había sido así.
Todo lo anterior había sido su cuerpo. Esto era su alma.”

“Siempre me pareció una tontería desear a una mujer que conversara apenar mejor que una oveja.”

“Las mujeres eran criaturas misteriosas. Si pudieran aprender a decir lo que realmente querían decir, el mundo sería de lejos un lugar más sencillo.”

“Tengo una idea —dijo ella. Alguien ahogó una exclamación. Otro gimió. —Una idea brillante. —Y no es que no sean brillantes todas sus ideas —musitó Colin con su voz más afable. Lady Danbury lo hizo callar agitando la mano. —¿Cuántos verdaderos misterios hay en la vida?
Nadie contestó, así que Colin aventuró: —¿Cuarenta y dos? Ella ni se molestó en mirarlo, ceñuda. —Os digo a todos aquí y ahora… Todos se le acercaron más. Incluso Colin. Era imposible sustraerse al dramatismo del momento. —Todos sois mis testigos… Colin creyó oír mascullar a Penelope: «Dilo de una vez». —Mil libras —dijo lady Danbury. Aumentó el número de personas congregadas alrededor. —Mil libras —repitió ella, aumentando el volumen de la voz. La verdad, tenía dones innatos para estar en un escenario—. Mil libras… De repente todo el salón estaba en reverente silencio. —…a la persona que desenmascare a lady Whistledown.”

“¿Cómo tiene el ojo? -preguntó ella. Tenía peor aspecto con la fuerte luz diurna, casi como si la magulladura se extendiera sobre el caballete de su nariz. Pero al menos ahora sabía de qué color tenía los ojos: azul claro intenso. Era casi absurdo lo mucho que le había intrigado aquello.
-No me molesta demasiado si no me lo toco -le dijo-. Intente reprimirse y no arrojarme piedras a la cara, se lo agradeceré de corazón.
-Todos mis planes para esta tarde al traste -bromeó ella-. Así de sencillo.”

“James: "¿Estás prestando atención o simplemente tratando de hacerme parecer un idiota?"
Elizabeth - "Oh, definitivamente estoy prestando atención. Si pareces un idiota, no tiene nada que ver conmigo."”

“She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else…”

“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”

“She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.”

“You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield”

“A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor - ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock.”

“It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.”

“Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.”

“There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she’d looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer.”

“James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?"
Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.”

“Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow.

-Lady Whistledown”

“To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.”

“I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.”

“Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.”

“She'd met Colin on a Monday.
She'd kissed him on a Friday.
Twelve years later.
She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.”

“Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, “Yes! Yes! I win!”

“You don’t win,” Anthony snapped.

“Oh, it feels like I’ve won,” she reveled.”

“You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one

-Henrietta Barett”

“And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.”

“I’m not certain you’d know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant.”
“I would think the elephant would be a fairly good indication that I ought to look elsewhere.”

“Anthony sneezed and pushed them aside. "Mother, I am trying to have a conversation with the duke."

Violet looked at Simon. "Do you want to have this conversation with my son?"

"Not particularly."

"Fine, then. Anthony, be quiet.”

“No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.”

“Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.”

“In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?"
"You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?”

“There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.”

“Sometimes Hen… I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.”

“Caroline, do you value your neck?"
"Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?"
"Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.”

“Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.”

“Do I look like a mess?” she asked.
He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered.”

“I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.”

“In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.”