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Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach. — Lauren Willig

I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession. — Lauren Willig

It's the exile's dilemma. The home they yearn for is never the home to which they return. If they return. — Lauren Willig

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe. — Lauren Willig

Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role. — Lauren Willig

My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance. — Lauren Willig

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way. — Lauren Willig

Quite definitely a Bingley — Lauren Willig

This was Hist and Lit, after all. If you couldn't work the term "liminal" into your tutorial, you were doing it wrong. — Lauren Willig

Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies. The Orchid Affair — Lauren Willig

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates. — Lauren Willig

Imagination was all very well in the daylight, but it was an uncomfortable thing late at night. — Lauren Willig

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. — Lauren Willig

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching. — Lauren Willig

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She responded to Letty's well-meaning suggestions with the unblinking disdain perfected by cats in their dealings with their humans. — Lauren Willig

Most of the time, there is no truth, only various levels of interpretation. Fact is a construct we provide to the public. — Lauren Willig

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next. — Lauren Willig

When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much. — Lauren Willig

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England — Lauren Willig

[He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary. — Lauren Willig

Tell them I have the headache
no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious. — Lauren Willig

Turning to Turnip, Miss Dempsey said, 'Do you think?'. 'As little as I can,' Turnip replied honestly. — Lauren Willig

Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun ... then my work here is done. — Lauren Willig

About, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason. — Lauren Willig

If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random. — Lauren Willig

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction. — Lauren Willig

If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs. — Lauren Willig

As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books. — Lauren Willig

With the complete lack of shame of the extremely deaf and the complete lack of grammar of the extremely inbred. — Lauren Willig

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women. — Lauren Willig

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature. — Lauren Willig

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating? — Lauren Willig

All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature. — Lauren Willig

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels. — Lauren Willig

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for. — Lauren Willig

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went. — Lauren Willig

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one. — Lauren Willig

Its nice to know that your common sense stands between me and the grave. — Lauren Willig

My dear Mrs. Grimstone, sometimes cowardice is merely another word for common sense. — Lauren Willig

No sin is original, no matter what the bright young things may hope. We're all merely playing to a theme. — Lauren Willig

I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else. — Lauren Willig