You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?
Julia QuinnBesides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly. "Where would Romeo and Juliet be?" "Alive.
Julia QuinnSociety is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.
Julia QuinnHe would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart
Julia QuinnI am going to kill you," he hissed. She gulped. "Don't you want to lecture me first?" He stared at her with a heavy dose of stupefaction. "I take that back," he said with precisely clipped words. "First I am going to strangle you, and then I am going to kill you." "Here?" she asked doubtfully, looking around. "Won't my dead body look suspicious in the morning?
Julia Quinn