#julia-quinn

"This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me."

"Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all."

"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."

"Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way."

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

"Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles."

"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."