Stephanie Barron > Quotes

“There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

“The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood was one of desolation and peace, a glorious past recalled, and now thankfully put to rest. ”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Genius of the Place

“Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Man of the Cloth

“...the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders and the stiff hedges to fall at the feet of a stone nymph, her cascade of water frozen in her urn.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

“Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction?”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Man of the Cloth