I am asking you to marry me because I love you,โ he said, โbecause I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.โ โWhat?โ she demanded. He shrugged. โA manโs got to keep up appearances. Iโll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.
Julia QuinnAnd I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks. Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first. โfrom Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin
Julia QuinnMy love has eyes blue as the sky. Her warm, bright smile makes me want to try To give her the world, And when she's curled Up in my arms where I can feel her touch, I realize again that I love her so much. My world has turned from black to white. Kissing in starlight, basking in sunlight, dancing at midnight.' ~John's poem for Belle
Julia QuinnI have friends who have children, and they have told me how remarkable it is to have a new life that is a piece of your own flesh anf blood. But I --" "I realized that I didn't love her because she was a piece of me, I loved her because she was a piece of you.
Julia Quinn