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The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1) QUOTES

The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1) QUOTES

1 " Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he’d realized that his life had just changed forever. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

2 " Love was the best present of all... "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

3 " Just her and the great outdoors. Gwendolyn Margaret Passmore and a million blades of grass. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

4 " It was as if her insides were light-headed. And her heart was not beating quite properly. It wasn’t racing, and it wasn’t pounding … It was dancing. Singing. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

5 " Her eyes were oceans, two oceans of -
Good God, he thought disgustedly. No wonder his sister hated her. He'd been in her presence for less than a minute, and already he'd gone completely stupid. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

6 " My heart swells," she mimicked. She snapped out of her caricature, and said sternly, "Woman don't like to be on the receiving end of sarcasm."
"They only like to give it," he drawled. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

7 " My sisters call him Slinky Simon.'
Alec chuckled.
'It's only funny if he's not your cousin.'
'It's funny because it's true. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

8 " Was it possible that Octavia had misjudged her?
What was he thinking? Of course, it was possible. Octavia was a dear, but she was nineteen years old and thinking of Octavia. The last thing she wanted in her life was a staggeringly beautiful rival who was not conveniently evil. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

9 " dervishine. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

10 " This is all very interesting," Briarly said. “But, perhaps you can reacquaint yourself with Miss Peyton at a more appropriate time, Captain Oakes. Though you may be my sister’s guest, here you are very much de trop.”

“Am I?” Neill asked. “Allow me to rectify the situation.” He turned to Kate. “I believe I saw you limping just now.”

She blinked in confusion. She wasn’t limping-Before she knew what he was about, he’d taken hold of her hand, pulled her forward, and was scooping her up into his arms as neatly and carelessly as a laundress collects bedding. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

11 " He had just brought Richelieu back down to the ground after a frolicsome attempt to touch a cloud with his front hooves. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

12 " Has no one ever taught you it is rude to pry?'
'Would you rather I sneaked about, ferreting things out? Of course not. 'Twould be most distasteful. All in all, I'd rather be thought rude than artful. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

13 " She had always looked like some confectioner's fantasia, a wee thing created of spun sugar, gossamer light, pale and shimmering, so fragile she might melt away in the morning dew. The years had made her seem even more unearthly. Yet, she looked older, too, riper, no longer sprite but faerie queen ... Everything about her was brighter, clearer, lighter. Everything but her eyes. They had darkened into something more complicated, deeper, more intense and intoxicating: pansies in shadow, the Cretan sea at midnight. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)

14 " Come, tears, confound,' he cried. 'Out, sword, and wound the left breast of Pyramus. Ay, that left breast where his heart doth hop. "

― Julia Quinn , The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most..., #1)