Jude Deveraux Quotes & Sayings

[He] looked at her as though she'd lost her mind, and [she] had her first experience of men rewriting history. I did no such thing [he said] — Jude Deveraux

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

Love can make even nice people do awful things. — Jude Deveraux

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

He is a man, no more. We will offer what we have, and he must be content. — Jude Deveraux

What kind of wedding do you want?" "The one with a groom. — 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

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

Once upon a time ...
... as a fair maiden lay weeping upon a cold tombstone, her heartfelt desire was suddenly made real before her: tall, broad of shoulder, attired in gleaming silver and gold, her knight in shining armor had come to rescue his damsel in distress ... — Jude Deveraux

I've come to realize that life is what you make it. — Jude Deveraux

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

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

It was flattering to have someone listen so intently to something that was so personal. — Jude Deveraux

I like you angry better than weepy. — Jude Deveraux

I'm an American and I want instant gratification. — Jude Deveraux

Mother Theresa once said that what hurt people more than poverty or illness was feeling that they weren't needed. — Jude Deveraux

sight." "Yeah?" That blue fire returned — Jude Deveraux

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

We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever. — Jude Deveraux

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

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

Beauty knows no time', he said softly, rising, and kissing her hand. — Jude Deveraux

My soul will find yours. — Jude Deveraux

Do you think I want to spend my life with a man who could so easily abandon his own child? What if we did go west and had a child? If you saw some sweet young thing, maybe you'd run off with her and leave our child. — 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

Dougless gritted her teeth. — Jude Deveraux

Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he? — Jude Deveraux

Time has no meaning,
Love will endure.. — Jude Deveraux

What manner of country was this that worshiped children to the extent that they were treated as royalty? — Jude Deveraux

You cannot blame all women for the faults of one. — Jude Deveraux

She looked like what all women wanted to grow up to look like: — Jude Deveraux

Had I access to what is mine, I would shower you with jewels. — Jude Deveraux

Were I to die tomorrow, my soul would remember you.
~Nicholas Stafford — Jude Deveraux

Us were glad to see her get married, — Jude Deveraux

I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I've met before, but I don't want to feel left out because I haven't read other books in the series. — Jude Deveraux

Cassie's first thought when she saw the old woman was, What a marvelous thing plastic surgery is. The woman was younger than Althea, but looked fifty years older — Jude Deveraux

You are an impertinent wench! Do you not know the Black Lion eats three girls such as you each day afore dinner?" Oblivious to the staring people around them, she put a finger on his lower lip. "I do not find that a horrible way to die at all," she said gently. — Jude Deveraux

To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift. — Jude Deveraux

But Robert was so much better than any of the other men Dougless had dated that she forgave him his little quirks - most — Jude Deveraux

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

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. — Jude Deveraux

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. — Jude Deveraux

I wanted everything and thought it would be given to me if I asked for it. I think I was too weak to take any kind of hardship. — Jude Deveraux

After a few dates, he'd propose marriage over a bottle of wine. — Jude Deveraux

For the most part people do not like to learn. They like to know adn they like to tell others what they know, but they do not like the process of learning ... — Jude Deveraux

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

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

Still smiling she carried the TV through the doorway; then she gave it the strongest heave she could manage ... When it hit Alan's oversized brick barbecue and the glass front of the TV smashed, Leslie didn't think she'd ever heard a more satisfying sound. — Jude Deveraux

What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed? — Jude Deveraux