Quote by Jane Austen

“She could Captain to his Your Majesty any time.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

“still the old man traveled on as if he was leading a tour through the descending class structure of Queens.”

— Victor LaValle

“She had seen other children go away, and had heard their fathers and mothers talk about the letters they received from them. She had…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still…

— Jane Austen

“Margaret...you must know that you could never change your own life. You are a girl: girls have no choice. You could never even choose…

— Philippa Gregory

“She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful…

— Louise Penny

“I am leaving in the morning Lady Grantham. I doubt we will meet again.” Sir Richard “Do you promise?” Dowager Countess Violet”

— Dowager Countess Violet Grantham

“years ago, much to everyone’s relief. His daughters had liked those about as little as they liked the overseers. He’d hoped when he dispensed…

— Cora Seton

“seemed to her that such a one abdicated all claim to enjoy the fruits of those friendly relations with people of good position which…

— Marcel Proust

“William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to happen you…

— Geoff Ryman

“I watched him skip away, probably heading off to find Lucas so they could plot together how to destroy their older siblings’ lives…mine in…

— Katrina Kahler

“The Queen’s family never understood that he had provided her with the companionship over the last decade of her life, which they themselves had…

— Shrabani Basu