Ashley Gardner Quotes

My father tolerated no dramatics of any kind. I’m not certain which is more devilish uncomfortable—too many emotions or none at all.

Perhaps the choice was neither right nor wrong. It only existed.

Percipience.

A good book is like a good friend, do you know, Lacey? One you can turn to when the night is cold and you are lonely.

The summer day had turned hot, and I was sweating by the time I reached Russel Street and turned again to Covent Garden.

Love of money, he said, was the root of all evil. That was in the New Testament. In Saint Paul’s letters to Timothy, if one wanted to be precise.

Louisa had been right about one thing. Many gentlemen took mistresses after they were married. It seemed almost expected. Society marriages often occurred because two families wanted to increase their...

I returned to my rooms, enraged and no further forward. Yesterday, I had believed that Denis murdered Horne, but after meeting him, I changed my conclusion.

Pugilist who won every match was dull, she

The room was rather anonymous, with fashionable upholstered Sheraton chairs in a salmon-colored stripe and studded wood, salmon-colored swags on the windows, and cream silk on the walls. Nothing perso...

No, I will drag you to the Thames and throw you in. Let the watermen fish you out. They will if you offer them enough coin. He swallowed. You are mad enough to do it. I am. If I discover that you have...

Most, even at my young age of nine and twenty, and the

He shook his head. Not a bit of it. When I arrived, I was small and dark and ugly. The perfect quarry for every bully. And then, one day, I grew tired of it. I had discovered that sarcasm and wit coul...

Will. You convey your exact thoughts, which is a reason people trust you. You never say one thing and think another. Many would call that rudeness.

Men are who they are. We try to make them into something they are not, and then are astonished when they turn out not to be what we wanted. We betray ourselves.

Did I envy a man who could afford to throw away an expensive piece of paper on a short note, or think him a fool? In any case, I carefully tore the clean end of the sheet from the written area and tuc...