Julia Quinn

This is a wonderful day,_ Anthony was muttering to himself. __ wonderful day._ He looked up sharply at Gareth. __ou don__ have sisters, do you?___one,_ Gareth confirmed.__ am in possession of four,_ Anthony said, tossing back at least a third of the contents of his glass. __our. And now they__e all off my hands. I__ done,_ he said, looking as if he might break into a jig at any moment. ____ free.___ou__e daughters, don__ you?_ Gareth could not resist reminding him.__ust one, and she__ only three. I have years before I have to go through this again. If I__ lucky, she__l convert to Catholicism and become a nun.Gareth choked on his drink.__t__ good, isn__ it?_ Anthony said, looking at the bottle. __ged twenty-four years.___ don__ believe I__e ever ingested anything quite so ancient,_ Gareth murmured.

He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent.""I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "But you seem to be the only one to believe me.

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband.-Penelope Featherington

Most people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knewfrom his extensive reading on logic and arithmetic, the largest number that most peoplecould visually appreciate. Put seven dots on a page, and most people can take a quickglance and declare, __even._ Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost.

Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.

But there she was, standing next to his mother, so beautiful, so radiant that he could not see anyone else. Suddenly the rest of the world seemed like such a chore. He didn__ want to be here at this dance, with people he didn__ want to talk to and messages he didn__ particularly wish to deliver. He didn__ want to dance with young ladies he didn__ know, and he didn__ want to make polite conversation with people he did. He just wanted Billie, and he wanted her all to himself. He forgot about Tallywhite. He forgot about pease, porridge, and pudding, and he stalked across the room with such single-minded purpose that the crowds seemed to melt from his path. And somehow, amazingly, the rest of the world had not yet noticed her. She was so beautiful, so uncommonly alive and real in this room full of waxen dolls. She would not go undiscovered for long. But not yet. Soon he would have to fight the throngs of eager young gentlemen, but for now, she was still his alone.

Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron,_ Sebastian said approvingly. __xcellent choice.___ou have read this?_ Alexei asked.__t__ not as good as Miss Davenport and the Dark Marquis, of course, but worlds better than Miss Sainsbury and the Mysterious Colonel.__arry found himself rendered speechless.____ reading Miss Truesdale and the Silent Gentleman right now.___ilent?_ Harry echoed.__here is a noticeable lack of dialogue,_ Sebastian confirmed.

He gave her a sly, sideways look. "Did youbring it?""My list? Heavens, no. What can you be thinking?"His smile widened. "I brought mine."Daphne gasped. "You didn't!""I did. Just to torture Mother. I'm going peruse it right in front of her, pull out my quizzing glass_""You don't have a quizzing glass."He grinned__he slow, devastatingly wicked smile that all Bridgerton males seemed to possess. "I bought one just for this occasion.""Anthony, you absolutely cannot. She will kill you. And then, somehow, she'll find a way to blame me.""I'm counting on it.

And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.

It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

She'd met Colin on a Monday.She'd kissed him on a Friday.Twelve years later.She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.

This is why I didn__ get married last year,_ she said to him. __ wouldn__ be here to nurse you._ She thought about that for a moment. __f course, one could make the argument that you wouldn__ be in this situation if not for me. But we__e not going to dwell upon that.

His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in words. He loved her.He worshipped her. He'd walk across fire for her. He___till had the audience of her three brothers.Slowly breaking the kiss, he turned his face to the side. Anthony, Benedict, and Colin were still standing in the foyer.Anthony was studying the ceiling, Benedict was pretending to inspect his fingernails, and Colin was staring quite shamelessly.

I__ not certain you__ know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant.___ would think the elephant would be a fairly good indication that I ought to look elsewhere.

James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?"Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.

Oakley won't," the duke said.She turned and blinked. "I beg your pardon.""Lord Oakley. He won't forget to find us rooms. I've known him for years. The only thing that is making this bearable is that he must be dying inside over all this.""You don't like him?""On the contrary. I've long considered him a friend. It's why I enjoy his misery so much.