After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

— Judith McNaught

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

— Judith McNaught

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep.

— Judith McNaught

Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!"-Royce Westmoreland

— Judith McNaught

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

— Judith McNaught

Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realizes he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".

— Judith McNaught

Do they still hurt?" she whispered in anguished surprise." No," Jason said tautly. Shame washed over him in sickening waves as he waited helplessly for her inevitable reaction to the stark evidence of his humiliation. To his utter disbelief he felt her arms encircle him from behind and the touch of her lips on his back. "How brave you must have been to endure this," she whispered achingly, "how strong to survive it and go on living..." When she began kissing each scar, Jason rolled to his side and jerked her into his arms. "I love you," he whispered agonized, plunging his hands into her luxuriant hair and turning her face up to his. "I love you so much...

— Judith McNaught

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery

— Judith McNaught

Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

— Judith McNaught

Every week, Michael went to Dean and Delta to buy your pears." She shook her head, remembering. "He was going to school, and he had no money, so he stretched every penny like this -" She made a motion as if she were pulling on rubber band. "But he wanted you to have the best pears. For you, only the best would do.

— Judith McNaught