Julian Quotes

“She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“She remembered thinking falling for him would be like falling in love with darkness, but now she imagined he was more like a starry night: the constellations were always there, constant, magnificent guides against the ever-present black.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“Yeah,” he said, eyelashes lowering as his gaze traced the movement of her fingers. “It hurt me being away from you. It feels like there’s a hook dug in under my ribs, and there’s something pulling at the other end. Like I’m tethered to you, no matter the distance.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“I have never been in love before," Julian said. "You're my first-and you'll be my only.”
― L.J. Smith, The Hunter

“I need you like - like light. You're light, all right - like a flame to a moth. I told you once that you shouldn't mess with forbidden things - I should have taken my own advice.”
― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game

“I'm going to kiss you... until you faint”
― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game

“The boy who’d saved her from drowning in more ways than one.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“He tasted like midnight and wind, and shades of rich brown and light blue. Colors that made her feel safe and guarded.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“I'm in love with you. I think everything you do is marvelous.”
― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game

“I’m half Italian.”

“Which half?” the words were out before Tessa could stop them. Was she flirting with him? She never flirted with men.
His lips curved in a slow, sexy smile that made her heart trip. “From the waist down.”
― Pamela Clare , Hard Evidence

“I never cheat. I practice Gamesmanship - the art of winning games without actually cheating.”
― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game

“Love and death are everything, Jenny. Danger is the best part of the game. I thought you knew that."
-Julian”
― L.J. Smith, The Chase

“If you lose, there's the devil to pay.”
― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game

“He’s the kind of man who if you gave him a gun and told him he had two choices—“shoot one of your dogs or shoot yourself in the head”—he’d put the gun to his ear and pull the trigger.”
“Hell, Jules, you’d do the same thing if someone did that to you and your goddamned cats,” Blake said in amusement.
“No,” Julian murmured with a shake of his head. “No, there’s a third option. People like us, we’re third-option people. We take the gun, stuff it in the person’s mouth, and eliminate the problem. Walk off into the sunset with our kitty.”
― Abigail Roux, Warrior's Cross

“What does it feel like to be infected?"
"I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't breathe, can't breathe, can't breathe. His skin smells like smoke from a wood fire, like soap, like heaven. I imagine tasting his skin; I imagine biting his lips.
"I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“Julian said the world was evil and horrible - remember? But then he proved himself that it wasn't”
― L.J. Smith, The Kill

“When I first saw you, you were like a flood of sunshine. All the others wanted to kill you. They thought I was crazy. They laughed...."
He means the other Shadow Men, Jenny thought.
"But I knew, and I watched you. You grew up and got more beautiful. You were so different from anything in my world. The others just watched, but I wanted you. Not to kill or to use up the way --the way they do with humans sometimes here. I needed you."
[...]
"I couldn't see anything else, couldn't hear anything else. All I could think about was you. I wouldn't let anyone else hurt you, ever. I knew I had to have you, no matter what happend. They said I was crazy with love.”
― L.J. Smith, The Kill

“Tessa touched her hand to his cheek. “You’re strong, brave, protective -”

“So is a Doberman.”
― Pamela Clare , Hard Evidence

“No, I'll dream another dream," he said. "I've made up so many things, now I'll just go into one. I'll be part of it.”
― L.J. Smith

“War and hunting and chasing-that's all there is. That's life, Jenny-no one can escape it.”
― L.J. Smith, The Chase

“You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am here
because I feel obligated." He brought her hand to his chest, pressing her
palm flat against his rapidly thumping pulse. "I'm obligated by my heart. It's
decided you're essential to my existence, you see. And it's threatening to go out on labor strike if I don't make you mine this very day. So yes. I am here on bended knee, acting from a deep, undeniable sense of obligation. I am, quite simply, yours." He swallowed hard. "If you'll have me.”
― Tessa Dare, Three Nights with a Scoundrel

“Why did you pull the arrow out?” she demanded, pulling her sweater over her head. She had a tank top on under it. She patted his chest and side with the sweater, absorbing as much of the blood as she could.

Jules’s breath was coming in harsh pants. “Because when someone—shoots you with an arrow—” he gasped, “your immediate response is not—‘Thanks for the arrow, I think I’ll keep it for a while.’”

“Good to know your sense of humor is intact.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Words are not the only way we communicate, you and I. They never were.”
― Meredith Duran, The Duke of Shadows

“There were two sides of Julian, she thought, and she remembered a line from something she'd read --Emily Brontë, maybe. Different as a moonbeam and lightning.
She wanted to reach the moonbeam part, but she didn't know how.
Very softly she said again, "I don't believe you. You're not like the other Shadow Men. You could change --if you wanted to."
"No," he said bleakly.
"Julian..." It was the bleakness that got her. She could see herself reflected in his eyes.
Without thinkng, she moved even closer. And closer. Her upper lip touched his lower lip.
"You can change," she whispered.”
― L.J. Smith, The Kill

“Yours if you want it."

- Julian to Emma.”
― Meredith Duran, The Duke of Shadows

“When he entered after her, she saw that he meant to come straight to her, and she raised a hand. "No," she said. "Wait."

His footsteps halted. He had always listened to her, hadn't he? Had always heard her."

-Emma and Julian”
― Meredith Duran, The Duke of Shadows

“After a long moment, the Countess sat back down. "So," she said. "You … do love her. I must say, you look peculiarly resigned to it."

He shrugged. "It is not fresh news for me."

"And for Emma?"

"Neither welcomed nor openly acknowledged."

"But acknowledged all the same, you believe."

"Perhaps," he said. "I cannot know. Not anymore."

-Delphinia, Lady Chad and Julian”
― Meredith Duran, The Duke of Shadows

“I was definitely jealous, but thats not the only reason I wanted you out of there.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“I think love is another type of magic. It makes everything brighter, it makes people who have it stronger, it breaks rules that aren’t supposed to exist, it’s infinitely valuable. I can’t imagine life without it. And if you felt any love in your heart, you would understand.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale