Pam

“There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she’d looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer.”
― Julia Quinn, The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

“When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”
― Julia Quinn, What Happens in London

“I dinna think tis romantic when a man says he's willin' t' give his life fer the woman he loves. Give me instead a man who'd fight to keep us both alive and kickin'! There's naught rommantic about a dead man, beau or no.”
― Karen Hawkins, To Scotland, With Love