Jude Deveraux > Quotes

“My soul will find yours.”
― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
― Jude Deveraux

“Time has no meaning,
Love will endure..”
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“Were I to die tomorrow, my soul would remember you.
~Nicholas Stafford”
― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor

“It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?”
― Jude Deveraux, Wild Orchids

“There are no new stories. It all depends on how you handle them. In romances the characters are going to fall in love with each other; you know that when you see the syrupy cover. It's how get there that's the fun.”
― Jude Deveraux

“Waiting for Prince Charming?"
"Aren't all women? And you're waiting for Cinderella."
"Actually," Jared said slowly, "I'm rather hoping to find the Evil Queen. I think she'd be much more fun.”
― Jude Deveraux, True Love

“You'd think the very thought of a romance writer would bring a smile to people's lips. Ah, how nice. Love. Making love. Laughter. Kissing.
But no, the world is upside down as far as I can see, and romances and their writers are ridiculed, hisses and generally spat upon.
For what reason? One of my favorites is that women who read them might get mixed up about reality and imagine a man is going to rescue them from Life. According to this theory, women are so stupid that they can't tell a story from reality. Is anyone worried that the MEN who read spy thrillers are going to go after their neighbors with an automatic weapon? No, I don't remember anyone thinking that. Nor do I remember anyone worrying about murder mysteries or science fiction. It just seems to be dumb ol' women who might think some gorgeous, thoughtful, giving hunk is going to rescue them.
Honey, if any woman thought a gorgeous hunk was going to rescue her, romance novels wouldn’t be forty percent of the publishing industry.”
― Jude Deveraux, Remembrance

“We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.”
― Jude Deveraux, True Love

“I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.”
― Jude Deveraux

“What kind of wedding do you want?"
"The one with a groom.”
― Jude Deveraux, True Love

“Will you give me another chance?” Robert repeated. Smiling, Dougless kissed him on the cheek. “No,” she said, “although I thank you very much for the offer.”
― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor

“Beauty knows no time', he said softly, rising, and kissing her hand.”
― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor

“To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.”
― Jude Deveraux, True Love

“One advantage women throughout time have had is that the little boy in men always remember a time when women were all-powerful.”
― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor

“On his face was an expression of absolute love. Melting, soul-touching, raw, unbridled love, the kind of person dies for, sacrifices and suffers for. It was the kind of love that a person would wait two hundred years to see fulfilled. It was True Love in its purest form.”
― Jude Deveraux, True Love

“There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.”
― Jude Deveraux, Secrets

“Miss Edi: My brother Bertrand is the laziest person in the world.
David: Oh yeah? And how lazy is that?
Miss Edi: When he was three and saw all his gifts under the Christmas tree, he said, 'Who's going to open them for me?'
David: I've heard worse.
Miss Edi: When he was six, my father bought him a bicycle and took him out to teach him to ride it.
David: And?
Miss Edi: Bertrand did very well. My father ran along behind him, holding on, and my brother balanced perfectly. But when my father let go and the bicycle stopped, Bertrand asked why. When my father said he had to push on the pedals, my brother left it lying there in the street, and he never got on a bicycle again.
David: Not bad, but I've heard worse.
Miss Edi: When he was twelve, my parents took us out to a restaurant, the first one we'd ever been to, and my father ordered steaks for each of us. When my brother's came, he looked at it and asked how he was to eat it. My father showed him how to cut the steak, then how to chew it. My brother called the waiter back and ordered a bowl of mashed potatoes.
David: Okay, that's getting up there, but I have heard a few worse.
Miss Edi: When he was sixteen, my mother arranged for her beloved son to go to a dance with a very nice young girl. He was to pick her up at six pm. At six-thirty Bertrand was sitting in the living room and my father asked him why he hadn't gone on his date. My brother said, 'Because she hasn't come to get me yet.”
― Jude Deveraux, Lavender Morning

“I like you angry better than weepy.”
― Jude Deveraux, Return to Summerhouse

“Yeah, I know. I was a jerk. An idiot. You can't say anything to me that I haven't already said to myself.”
― Jude Deveraux, Secrets

“It was flattering to have someone listen so intently to something that was so personal.”
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“I'm an American and I want instant gratification.”
― Jude Deveraux, Remembrance

“You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.”
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“I've come to realize that life is what you make it.”
― Jude Deveraux, Counterfeit Lady

“I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.”
― Jude Deveraux

“He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker in the red T-shirt who'd whistled at her but she'd pretended she hadn't heard; he was the men in three-piece suits whose brains were as sexy as their bodies; he was lazy, indolent seventeen-year-old boys whose muscles bulged out of their clothes, rodeo stars, and those smooth-cheeked, eyeglassed men who held their children tenderly. He was all of them.”
― Jude Deveraux, Sweet Liar

“Modern women had their own self-made guilt to make them miserable, but the sixteenth-century people had diseases, their fear of the unknown, their ignorance of medicine, and constant and ever-present death to haunt them.”
― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor

“What I do know is that I can't hurt a ghost. I wish I could fall in love with Ann Stuart. I wish I could wed her and bed her and have children with her. I wish I could fill that huge house with little spirit children who would live forever and never die.”
― Jude Deveraux, Someone to Love

“I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.”
― Jude Deveraux, Counterfeit Lady

“Better to allow people to think you’re a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
― Jude Deveraux, Sweet Liar