The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney #1)

by Claudia Gray

Fanny had always found her greatest comfort in the natural world—in forests and fields, in tree and flower.

“He believes all others to be hypocrites,” Mother said, “because he believes everyone else’s nature to be as corrupt as his own. Mr. Wickham cannot understand that anyone’s behavior might match their intent, because his own so rarely does.”

When making new friends, pay less attention to what people say of themselves, more attention to how they behave.

Truth is not in the telling but in the doing.