Evie Quotes
39 quotes by 6 authors
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Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!†Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they…
— Libba Bray
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She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne—bubbly and intoxicating—and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she…
— Libba Bray
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How do you invent a religion?†Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then…
— Libba Bray
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Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently…
— Libba Bray
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I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,†Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.†“Evangeline,†Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.†“So…
— Libba Bray
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Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. “A pro, I see. 
— Libba Bray
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Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.
— Libba Bray
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Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,†Evie said in a voice of…
— Libba Bray
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The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a…
— Libba Bray
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Evie replied with an eye-roll. “Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I’m gone?†“The only thing I’m trying to steal…
— Libba Bray
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If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan…
— Libba Bray
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With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would…
— Libba Bray
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Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as…
— Libba Bray
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No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but…
— Libba Bray
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For once, Evie didn’t know what to say. She hadn’t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who…
— Libba Bray
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She is the elephant’s eyebrows,†Evie whispered appreciatively. “Those jewels! How her neck must ache.†“That’s why Bayer makes aspirin,†Mabel whispered back, and Evie…
— Libba Bray
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The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder." "A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes," Evie said excitedly. "It…
— Libba Bray
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Evie picked up the smallest of the rings and tried it on the fourth finger of her left hand. It fit perfectly. Raising it closer…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.
— Libba Bray
Who Wrote These Evie Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 39 Evie Quotes as follows: