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.
There is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather; / To cheer one on the tedious way, / To fetch one if one goes astray, / To lift one if one totters down, / To strengthen whilst one stands...
Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?
The urge to turn his back until his stepmother went away was strong, but the urge to talk about Jane was stronger. You were her chaperone? Jack said, the words half lost on the wind.Chaperone, second...
Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.
She feigned a sip of her wine. It was claret, not port. It was, she thought, very like Nicolas to travel with his own cellar into a region famed for its wines. I shall always think of you as a friend....
LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.
If, said Jane, ignoring him as only Jane dared, someone were to speak to her; if someone were to suggest . . . Ah. Vaughn's lips compressed, as the whole fiasco suddenly fell into place. That's what y...
I don't believe anything's really inevitable until it happens. We just call it inevitable to make ourselves feel better about it, to excuse ourselves for not having done anything.
Her mother would be appalled, but she wouldn't say anything. She would just telegraph her distress with tightened lips and raised brows. She was good at that. Clemmie's mother's brows were better than...
He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world.He didn't realize that the truth was so much more complex, so much less impressive....
Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers,...
For a long moment, he held her gaze without speaking, simply letting the impact of words sink in, before adding rapidly, as though he wished to get it over with as quickly as possible, I won't deny th...
With the complete lack of shame of the extremely deaf and the complete lack of grammar of the extremely inbred.
What is love?Jane had asked Nicolas, when he had professed that emotion, unasked. It hadn’t been coyness. It had been a genuine question.She knew what the poets said of love; she knew what great men a...
This was Hist and Lit, after all. If you couldn't work the term liminal into your tutorial, you were doing it wrong.
There was nothing the least bit radical about her. In fact, she was the most conventional creature alive. She believed in true love, and loyalty to one's monarch, and death before dishonor. It was jus...
Patience, she said in her best governess voice, is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
Our guest—she gave Nicolas a hard look, willing him to behave himself—is not bound because Monsieur le Comte de Brillac has expressed a desire to become our ally.Miss Gwen snorted. Oh, is that what he...