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Evie Quotes by Libba Bray
- You can’t blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?†Sam’s grin was anything but apologetic. Evie brought up…
- Hey,†the cabbie yelled. “How’s about a tip?†“You bet-ski,†Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her.…
- Dead bodies are such trouble,†Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.
- What took you so long?†Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of books, which they…
- Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every week. That coupe…
- There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.
- A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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. 
- Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Evie Quotes
- Ah, Evie,†she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.†“Only… — Lisa Kleypas
- But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. — June Jordan
- Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a… — Chuck Palahniuk
- Why’s the faerie so obsessed with you anyway? You’re not that cute.†(Arianna to Evie) — Kiersten White
- Evie," Lillian interupted impatiently, "men expect to be deceived in these matters. They're happiest that way. If one were straightforward with them… — Lisa Kleypas
- Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie. — Lisa Kleypas
- But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a… — Linda Howard
- Evie †came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can… — Lisa Kleypas