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Lauren Willig

(1977) Novelist United States

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Lauren Willig is a novelist from the United States, best known for Historia Secreta del Clavel Carmesi / The Secret History of the Pink Carnation.

Quick Facts About Lauren Willig

Born: March 28, 1977
Nationality: United States
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: Historia Secreta del Clavel Carmesi / The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

About Lauren Willig

Lauren Willig is an American writer, specializing in historical novels. She is best known for her "Pink Carnation" series, which follows a collection of Napoleonic-Era British spies, similar to the Scarlet Pimpernel, as they fight for Britain and fall in love.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Lauren Willig · Page 2

“Mr. Alsworthy!” exclaimed Letty’s mother. “How can you laugh at such a matter! Although, I must say, I would have thought if…

Parenting

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“That is fairly tame, I must say. If one is to have a blood sacrifice, I would hope there would at least…

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

Application

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“It was very hard to rant while accepting a cup of tea.”

Cup of tea

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“arrived. She settled herself on”

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It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of…

Academia

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“Its nice to know that your common sense stands between me and the grave.”

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily…

Clever

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“That was the problem with snide comments; they invariably lost all their punch on repetition. Besides, when facing impending death, what did…

Death

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“Imagination was all very well in the daylight, but it was an uncomfortable thing late at night.”

Imagination

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“he just didn’t want to share him with anyone. Ever. She wanted to be the person his eyes sought out in a…

First person

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Quite definitely a Bingley

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“Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.”

Appreciate

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

Humor

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“His look felt like a touch”

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“About, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason.”

Intelligence

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“Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign…

Funny-and-random

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

Come up

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There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the…

Attractive

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“ Think before you speak. Take a deep breath, people suggested. Count to ten. Count sheep. Oh, wait, that was for sleeping.…

Think before speak

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that time moves differently for men.”

Time

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“It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp…

Historical fiction

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There is, I have heard, a little thing called sunrise, in which the sun reverses the process we all viewed the night…

Assuming

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

Disease

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Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he…

Champagne

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