Behinds Quote by Gail Carriger

“Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more…

— Olivia Manning

“I saw no reason I could not live out my days in Upper Biddleton as a ruined woman. After all, that sort of reputation…

— Amanda Quick

“Nice Lincoln legs." "I bet you say that to all the girls." Sterling was kind of growing on me. I liked his sense of…

— Christine Manzari

“Indeed, for my own part, though I have been repeatedly told by persons for whom I have the greatest respect, that Miss Brown is…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“I couldn't take my eyes from those plumes of spray, the churning shards of light. Was this what the old man was afraid of?…

— Tim Winton

“Had we but World enough, and Time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and…

— Andrew Marvell

“Badass with a hint of lady.”

— Belle Aurora

“Charity could chatter dorm-room Marxist theory with the best of them, but a single look from cool, silver-haired Lady Beddington was enough to make…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“Grandfather used to say that when a woman got ready to fall in love the man didn't matter, because she could drape her feeling…

— Ellen Glasgow

“She spotted Matt Holden and her eyes began to twinkle. He was a handsome devil, even at his age. His wife had died the…

— Diana Palmer

“Mary: “Don’t be spiky, when I only want what you want – for you and Tony to walk into the sunset together.” Mabel: “Then…

— Julian Fellowes

“We have come to live among specters, Sara tells herself. They are not people, but silhouettes sketched on a backdrop to deceive us into…

— Harriet Doerr