Benedict Quotes

“Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“What were we talking before I was so rudely interrupted by a flying citrus ?”
― Joss Stirling, Finding Sky

“Yeah, well, not many boys take their girls out on a duck shoot with them as target for a first date. You have to give me points for style.”
― Joss Stirling, Finding Sky

“You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful.”
― Joss Stirling, Finding Sky

“So, Zed, isn’t this a killer outfit?”
“Certainly a killer, baby.”
“Good, because I’ve bought another five just like it.”
“You horrible, teasing fairy. If you really have more of those fashion disasters in your bags, I’m gonna hang you on top of the family Christmas tree in December.”
― Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix

“So you got Phoenix back,” declared Karla, clapping her hands in delight. “That’s lovely.”
“I’m more on loan,” I muttered.
“Yeah, my little library book.”
― Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix

“I've just had a really evil idea."
"My favourite kind”
― Joss Stirling, Seeking Crystal

“You pushed it too far. You shouldn't take the same risk again."
"Says the guy who got shot.”
― Joss Stirling, Seeking Crystal

“Trace is cooking Nonna's lasagna."
"Wow. I must see this."
"He was wearing her little apron and everything."
"Got a camera?”
― Joss Stirling, Seeking Crystal

“I wasn’t sure, but I thought it kind of suited me. With the right shoes and everything.” I displayed the new blue pumps. “I wanted to look, you know, pretty.”
Yves gaped. I felt a little bit sorry for him. “Um…Phee, I don’t know what to say.”
I let my bright expression dim. “You… you think I look horrible in it?” My voice rose in a convincing squeak of distress.
He put his hands on my soulders. “No, you look great. You always look great, no matter what you’re wearing.”
Zed laughed. “Ouch. Wrong thing to say.”
― Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix

“Oh my gosh, don’t you both look pretty!” We looked like rejects from the auditions for The Sound of Music.
“I will have to buy them – they are meant to be yours!” Karla waved her credit card around like a wand.
“What a shame they didn’t have one in green for me. But then, it is a young girl’s style. I would’ve looked foolish.”
― Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix

“Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict

“He said he needed to unwind. He was furious we all let you go so far. That boy would stop you so much as breaking a nail if he could.”
― Joss Stirling, Seeking Crystal

“Zed and Sky had stayed behind and were chatting with Will, Sky sitting on Zed's knee as if nothing was going to get them apart again in a hurry. Victor and Uriel were playing cards at the kitchen table. Trace looked cute in an apron, chopping vegetables with a surgeon's precision.”
― Joss Stirling, Seeking Crystal

“Saul tapped his wife's obstinate chin. "Mrs. Benedict, you certainly are. You promised to obey."
"That was thirty years ago! Before the wedding ceremony caught up with the modern age."
"Well, I for one am holding you to that. Gondola for two, in the moonlight, with champagne and roses.”
― Joss Stirling, Seeking Crystal

“Let me drive," she said, reaching for the reins.
He turned to her in disbelief. "This is a phaeton, not a single-horse wagon."
Sophie fought the urge to throttle him. His nose was running, his eyes were red, he couldn't stop coughing, and still he found the energy to act like an arrogant peacock. "I assure you," she said slowly, "that I know how to drive a team of horses.”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“Hospitality is a prized virtue of monastic communities. Benedict's rule says: 'All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ, for he himself will say, "I was a stranger and you welcomed me."' Brother Alphonsus served as a doorkeeper in the seventeenth century at a Jesuit college in Majorca, Spain. Each time someone knocked at the door he would reply, 'I am coming, Lord!' This practice reminded him to treat each person with as much respect as if it were Jesus himself at the door.”
― Ken Shigematsu, God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God

“He wasn’t certain how this woman had come to mean so much to him. It seemed that one day she was a stranger, and the next she was as indispensable as air. And yet it hadn’t happened in a blinding flash. It had been a slow, sneaky process, quietly coloring his emotions until he realized that without her, his life lacked all meaning.

-Benedict's thoughts about Sophie”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“How did you know?” Benedict finally asked.
One corner of Colin’s mouth tilted up into a crooked smile. “About Sophie? It’s rather obvious.”
“Colin, she’s—”
“A maid? Who cares? What is going to happen to you if you marry her?” Colin asked with a devil-may-care shrug of his shoulders. “People you couldn’t care less about will ostracize you? Hell, I wouldn’t mind being ostracized by some of the people with whom I’m forced to socialize.”
Benedict shrugged dismissively. “I’d already decided I didn’t care about all that,” he said.
“Then what in bloody hell is the problem?” Colin demanded.
“It’s complicated.”
“Nothing is ever as complicated as it is in one’s mind.”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“You can’t marry her,” Araminta insisted.
Benedict turned to his mother. “Is there any reason I need to consult Lady Penwood about this?”
“None that I can think of,” Lady Bridgerton replied.
“She is nothing but a whore,” Araminta hissed. “Her mother was a whore, and blood runs— urp!”
Benedict had her by the throat before anyone was even aware that he had moved. “Don’t,” he warned, “make me hit you.”
The magistrate tapped Benedict on the shoulder. “You really ought to let her go.”
“Might I muzzle her?”
The magistrate looked torn, but eventually he shook his head.”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“She was here, with him, and she felt like heaven. The soft scent of her hair, the slight taste of salt on her skin— she was, he thought, born to rest in the shelter of his arms. And he was born to hold her.

-Benedict's thoughts about Sophie”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“What are you smiling about?” she asked.
He drew back a few inches, cupping her face with both hands. “How did you know I was smiling?”
“I could feel it on my lips.”
He brought a finger to those lips, tracing the outline, then running the edge of his fingernail along the plump skin. “You make me smile,” he whispered. “When you don’t make me want to scream, you make me smile.”

-Sophie & Benedict”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Oh, for the love of God,” Benedict snarled. “Will you let go of her or will I have to shoot your damned hand off?”
Benedict wasn’t even holding a gun, but the tone of his voice was such that the man let go instantly.
“Good,” Benedict said, holding his arm out toward the maid. She stepped forward, and with trembling fingers placed her hand on his elbow.
“You can’t just take her!” Phillip yelled. Benedict gave him a supercilious look. “I just did.”
“You’ll be sorry you did this,” Phillip said.
“I doubt it. Now get out of my sight.”
Phillip made a huffy sound, then turned his friends and said, “Let’s get out of here.” Then he turned to Benedict and added, “Don’t think you shall ever receive another invitation to one of my parties.”
“My heart is breaking,” Benedict drawled.”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what you are expecting in life.”
― Joan D. Chittister

“Oh, my dear, love isn't always the coup de foudre--the lightning strike. Sometimes it happens quietly, so quitely you may not even notice.”
― Julia Justiss, Convenient Proposal to the Lady

“She was here, with him, and she felt like heaven. The soft scent of her hair, the slight taste of salt on her skin— she was, he thought, born to rest in the shelter of his arms. And he was born to hold her.

-Benedict's thoughts”
― Julia Quinn

“It was remarkable, but every time he kissed her, her lips seemed to grow sweeter, her scent more beguiling. And his need grew, too. His blood was racing with desire, and it was taking his every last shred of restraint not to push her back onto the sofa and tear her clothes from her body.
That would come later, he thought with a secret smile. But this— surely her first time— would be slow and tender and everything a young girl dreamed.
Well, maybe not. His smile turned into an outright grin. Half the things he was going to do to her, she wouldn’t have even thought to dream about.”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others because they are not capable of leading when it is required of them to lead. Benedict says that in matters of importance the abbot or prioress is to ask everyone in the community, 'starting with the youngest,' and then the abbot or prioress is to 'do what seems best.”
― Joan D. Chittister

“She was, he thought, born to rest in the shelter of his arms. And he was born to hold her.”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman