When Phoebe glanced back at the marquess he swiftly lifted that rogue lock of hair, pointed at his forehead and mouthed: Good aim. She clapped a hand over her mouth. Dear God, he was sporting a bruise! So that’s where she’d clocked him with his hat! And this explained the forelock.

— Julie Anne Long

Julie Anne Long Quotes

He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.

— Julie Anne Long
Romance

But love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and “is kind” nonsense. It’s like the Song of Solomon. It’s jealousy and fire and floods. It’s everything that consumes.” – Lady Fennimore.

— Julie Anne Long

It isn’t a weakness to accept kindness. It isn’t a weakness to allow yourself to be cared for.

— Julie Anne Long

I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.

— Julie Anne Long

It’s just a part of her life. Sewing her world back together again, sometimes even daily.

— Julie Anne Long

Oh, God. She’d now have to invent a bawdy verse on the spot. She’d never had to improvise so much in her entire life as she had in the last five minutes. Improvise being another word for lie, of course.

— Julie Anne Long

When Phoebe glanced back at the marquess he swiftly lifted that rogue lock of hair, pointed at his forehead and mouthed: Good aim. She clapped a hand over her mouth. Dear God, he was sporting a bruise! So that’s where she’d clocked him with his hat! And this explained the forelock.

— Julie Anne Long

We think we’re so clever. And yet we’re always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.

— Julie Anne Long

Gentleness was sometimes perilously close to pity.

— Julie Anne Long

Plain girls who were also clever were a ha’pence a dozen.

— Julie Anne Long

There are those who think beauty is a thing of surface, and forget that it’s really of the soul. But good is something you are, not something you do. – Vicar Adam Sylvaine.

— Julie Anne Long
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