Jeanne

“She enjoyed all of her names, and she was proud of every last one, but the one she liked best was Lottie. Lottie. It was the simplest of the bunch, but that wasn’t why she liked it. Her tastes rarely ran to the simple, after all. She liked her wigs tall and her dresses grand and she was quite certain no one in her household appreciated the complexities of music or art as keenly as she did.”
― Julia Quinn, Queen Charlotte

“It wasn’t all that long ago that he’d stood where I did, that my mom’s face was one of many in his
world. And yet, despite all the impediments and all the time that had passed, they were still deeply in
love.
It was obvious in everything, from their shared room to the way they fretted over each other to the
way they seemed to be incapable of not flirting with each other even after being married so long.”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“I’m not sure if fate or destiny is real. But I can
tell you that sometimes the very thing you’ve been hoping for will walk through the door, determined
to fend you off. And still, somehow, you will find that you are enough.”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“Between Dad’s confession that Mom wasn’t even supposed to be a choice and Mom’s revelation
that she didn’t want to be a part of the choosing in the first place, I wondered how they had managed
to find each other at all”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir