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

by Claudia Gray

In a handful of places, I have used the word Gypsies to refer to Roma people/Travelers. This was the word used in Regency England and is probably the only terminology the characters would’ve known. It is my hope that these few brief mentions are not unduly hurtful and that the content of the book reflects no harmful stereotypes.

The world is a ridiculous place, my child. Make of it what you can.

It appeared that people did not like to listen nearly so much as they liked to be listened to.

“Not all wickedness reveals itself immediately. Sometimes it masquerades as charm in the beginning. And the masquerade can be more convincing than you would ever dream.”

“What, I wonder, is the best that can be made of Mr. Wickham?”

If something has…has caused a husband harm, or troubled his spirit, then it is a wife’s privilege to hear him as no other person in this world can do. To bear his pain alongside him, and in so doing leaven his suffering.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that where options are limited, coincidences will occur.”

“We all of us have episodes in our past of which we greatly repent,” she said. “Some more than others. I prefer to be amused by them, when I can.”

How unfortunate for public morals that being unladylike feels so…exciting.

most people are really very peculiar, once you get to know them. The only difference is in how well we hide our peculiarities.

Everyone likes to do what they do well. It is a vanity universal to man.”

“I believe that the smallest hatred is a greater sin than the most misguided love.”

“We are now grateful for that which we once took for granted. But that is no reason for less gratitude.

Her husband might be self-righteous at times—perhaps he should consult her more and respect her opinions more thoroughly—but that did not change his good heart. She had to remember the best of him, even when facing the worst.

When one spoke rarely, one’s words were listened to more attentively.

There is no plan so pleasant, no expectation so cherished, that someone cannot be found to disapprove of it.

“The church should not be closed to those going through a time of travail. It is then that the comfort and wisdom of our Lord is most needed.”

Death is among the most serious of human concerns. Dancing is not.

Religion must support the bonds of family and love, rather than work against them, if it is to symbolize God’s love for man.

I do not know what honest man takes a woman’s refusal as encouragement,

“If I had not already known that your appetite for society and liveliness was insatiable, this would have proved it beyond all doubt.”

How differently the world appeared, when one stopped cringing away from it and faced it in the light.

Perhaps there is no surer ground for the foundation of a friendship than a shared time of trouble.