Lauren Willig Quotes

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• Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.
• 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…
• They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.
• Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?
• They were close enough that he could feel the hurried beat of her heart. He could feel Charlotte's indecision in every word she didn't say…
• Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I…
• Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
• Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both…
• I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of…
• Quite definitely a Bingley
• It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.
• The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they…
• There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With…
• There is, I have heard, a little thing called sunrise, in which the sun reverses the process we all viewed the night before. You might…
• But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably…
• Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what…
• Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.
• It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.
• LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.
• Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

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