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Quinn-tessential Quotes

You know when you are reading and you hit a line that sums up the whole feeling of the book? Readers regularly post their favorite lines to Facebook, and there is usually a consensus at to which is quintessentially that book.

A Favorite Quote from Just Like Heaven

The Smythe-Smith musicale. It finished off what the Crusades had begun.

A Favorite Quote from The Sum of All Kisses

In fanciful novels, the sort Sarah read by the dozen and refused to apologize for, foreshadowing was painted by the bucket, not the brushstroke.

A Favorite Quote from Ten Things I Love About You

“Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”

A Favorite Quote from The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy

“Die!” the unicorn shrieked. “Die! Die! Die!”

A Favorite Quote from The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

Today I fell in love.

A Favorite Quote from It’s In His Kiss

It would be rather easy to love Hyacinth Bridgerton. He didn’t know where that thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to LIVE with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to love her.

A Favorite Quote from Lady Whistledown Strikes Back

“My aim,” she said tightly, “is to find a husband. Not to snare one, not to trap one, not to drag one to the altar, but to find one, preferably one with whom I might share a long and contented life.”

A Favorite Quote from Where’s My Hero?

Rupert’s poetry could surely have been improved by a cow or two. Saying moo on cue at Waterloo.

A Favorite Quote from To Sir Phillip, With Love

Eloise just stared at him. As long as she lived, she’d never understand men. She had four brothers, and quite frankly should have understood them better than most women, and maybe it had taken all of her twenty-eight years to come to this realization, but men were, quite simply, freaks.

A Favorite Quote from The Further Observations Of Lady Whistledown

“So it wasn’t the man himself you loved, so much as the way he made you feel.”

“Is there a difference?” Susannah asked.

David appeared to consider her question quite deeply before finally saying, “Yes. Yes, I think there is.”

The books and the shows come together here.