Simon: When one burns for someone who does not feel the same!” Season 1, Episode 5, “The Duke and I” I have always been yours.” Season 1, Episode 5 “The Duke and I”

I cannot stop thinking of you.įrom the mornings you ease, to the evenings you quiet, to the dreams you inhabit… my thoughts of you never end. I want her to be my wife.Īnd so I plead with you… not to make us wait.” Simon, Season 1, Episode 5 “The Duke and I” To meet a beautiful woman is one thing, but to meet your best friend in the most beautiful of women is something entirely apart.Īnd it is with my sincerest apologies, I must say it took the prince coming along for me to realize I did not want Miss Bridgerton to only be my friend. But with Daphne… Miss Bridgerton… conversation has always been easy. I have never been a man that much enjoyed flirting, or chatting, or, indeed, talking at all. “We have fooled them into thinking we are courting… when really, all along, we simply enjoyed each other’s company so much we could not stay away from one another. So, here are some of our top romantic Simon quotes from Bridgerton: Love is a key theme in Bridgerton after all, and with iconic lines like the whole “burn for you” thing, Simon really crushes it in the romance department. And if there’s ever been a time to dive into a world that has absolutely no relevance to the past two years, it’s now.Simon’s Most Romantic Lines in Bridgerton But the fact that these are amazing books that you won’t be able to put down is reason enough to start, honestly. If you start reading now, you can be one of those people who gets to brag about knowing what’s going to happen next (à la the Game of Thrones book readers).

Then the books jump to the oldest Bridgerton child, Anthony (which season 2 of the show will follow), and go down in the order of Benedict, Colin, Eloise, Francesca, Hyacinth, and Gregory for a total of eight books. The first book starts with Daphne and her, er, rough road to marrying the Duke, which was well documented in the first season of the show. There are literally thousands of pages’ worth of promenading, stolen glances, and scandalous hand touching, all under the watchful eye of Lady Whistledown and her gossip paper.Įach one of the eight books in the series follows one of the Bridgerton kids and their (oddly dramatic) love lives. That’s right, in case you didn’t know, Bridgerton is actually based on a series of books by best-selling author Julia Quinn. If you binge-watched all of Bridgerton (same!) and are now looking to fill the steamy 19th-century English romance void in your life-at least until season 2 hits Netflix on March 25-then don’t worry, because there’s an entire series of books ready to help you do just that.

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