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Lady Whistledown Strikes Back (Lady Whistledown, #2) QUOTES

Lady Whistledown Strikes Back (Lady Whistledown, #2) QUOTES

1 " He just looked at her as if she were an idiot. Or a woman. It was Tillie's experience that most men thought they were one and the same. "

― Julia Quinn , Lady Whistledown Strikes Back (Lady Whistledown, #2)

2 " Some moments are easy. They are good and fun and beautiful, and I’m happy. Others aren’t so easy. But it is my decision to be happy during the hard times as well as the easy ones. I cannot control most things, but I can control my feelings. And I want to be happy. So I find something in every moment that I can enjoy. "

― Julia Quinn , Lady Whistledown Strikes Back (Lady Whistledown, #2)

3 " Then why did you return to England if not to get the diary?"
"I returned because you asked me to."
She looked at him, too startled to even speak for a moment. [She said,] "That's all it would have taken."
"Yes."
"Oh!" She stomped her foot, tugging even harder on her hand. "I hate that!"
Max's brow lowered. "You hate what?"
"How you've made it all my fault! Not only did you leave because of me, but now, you return because of me! Maxwell, you are - you are -" She snapped her mouth together, took a deep breath, then burst out, "You are a beast!" She yanked her hand free, jumped up, and marched from the room, slamming the door behind her. "

― Julia Quinn , Lady Whistledown Strikes Back (Lady Whistledown, #2)

4 " She had pushed the kiss into a small corner of her brain, and it only came out at night. It would trip about her head and run down and beat in her heart a bit, and not let her get any sleep at all. "

― Julia Quinn , Lady Whistledown Strikes Back (Lady Whistledown, #2)

5 " Miss Martin," he said. "How on earth did you get a name like Isabella?" Just one of the many things that he'd wondered about as he had sat hunched behind his desk over the weekend.
She shook her head, obviously confused by the change of subject, but then smiled. "Ah, it was my mother. I received my imagination from her. She was constantly telling me stories about Spanish princesses and English princes. She named me Isabella after the Spanish Queen."
See, Anthony thought, nothing so extravagant that it should be pondered to death over an entire weekend. "

― Julia Quinn , Lady Whistledown Strikes Back (Lady Whistledown, #2)