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“Livia took Charlotte by the shoulders. “Don’t do anything you’ll regret.” Charlotte’s lips stretched into a smile that did not reach her eyes. “Would that someone had given Papa that warning.”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women

“Papa asked me to make a good-faith effort to let a man sweep me off my feet and I’ve agreed. But I don’t know why he thinks I’ll weigh contributing factors differently when I’m off my feet. Sometimes I feel I must conclude that Papa doesn’t know me at all.”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women

“ENTITLEMENT HAS A particular stench. Pungent, bitter. Almost brutal.”
― Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

“Ingrid looked so normal, just like all the other parents. She didn’t look like a succubus.”
― Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

“A few hours later, she was dead. Too bad there wasn’t an award for that.”
― Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

“Hard to enjoy the turnout when you’re dead.”
― Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

“The amount of money here just in clothes, jewelry, and handbags must be in the millions. Not to mention the wristwatches. The only acceptable jewelry for a man is a wedding ring and a wristwatch. Teddy always checks out both. It’s too bad he doesn’t have binoculars. Bet there are some extraordinary watches here today.”
― Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

“Being white and clean-cut gets Zach into a lot of places. And out of them, if need be.”
― Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

“Another problem to fix. If the world wasn’t filled with so many incompetent people, Teddy would have so much more time to concentrate on the important things. Like teaching.”
― Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

“Being loved is one thing, being hated is another, but there’s nothing worse than being ignored.”
― Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

“He made her human—or as human as she was capable of being. And being human was possibly her least favorite aspect of life.”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women

“She sometimes thought of her mind as bearing a certain resemblance to the post office, a complex system that sorted and conveyed packets of information with speed and efficiency. But at the moment her most prized asset was more comparable to an automobile, a machine liable to break down every few miles and strand the hapless motorist by the side of the road.”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women

“Mrs. Watson pressed the heavy coin into Charlotte’s palm and closed her fingers around it. “Remind yourself that you’re far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don’t yet understand your own value and you’ve never been taught to demand your full worth.” She smiled. “That’s why I appointed myself the bursar of this operation, because I’ve had to learn both.”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women

“Charlotte couldn’t help laughing. “My dear lady, I feared to impose on your kindness. I see now that I needn’t have worried. You are a shark!” Mrs. Watson preened a little, evidently pleased by Charlotte’s observation. “A shark with a good nose for money in the water but, let’s say, rather soft teeth.”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women

“Cilla . . . a dolorous memory”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“Alexander O’Riley . . . a dangerous Irish pirate (and concerned chum)”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“Teddy Luxe . . . a fencing master with provocative hips”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“The ghost of Emily Brontë . . . alleged”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“Italian,” Cecilia said, disappointment withering each syllable. “You need to be a bit older before you can attract a proper assassin, my dear,” Miss Darlington advised from the interior.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“I venture to guess Signor de Luca has never yet killed any creature greater than a fly.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“A real assassin would hire a sensible tailor. And a barber. And would not attempt to murder someone five minutes before luncheon.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“one does not want to encourage the younger generation too much, lest they lose sight of their proper place: under one’s thumb.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“Granted, she did fly that bookshop into the Serpentine when they told her they didn’t stock any Dickens novels, but that only shows a praiseworthy enthusiasm for literature.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“Crash! The two women looked over at the window as it shattered. A grenade tumbled onto the carpet. Cecilia expelled a sigh of tedium. She snapped the book shut, wended her way through the furnishings, pulled back the drapes, and deposited the grenade through the broken windowpane onto the terrace, where it exploded in a flash of burning light, brick shards, and fluttering lavender buds.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“Alathea continuing on in robust health to maraud the coastline for several more years before losing a skirmish with Lord Vesbry’s pet alligator while holidaying in the South of France.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“Even so, she’d tried all she could to smooth troubled waters. But Darlington had rudely persisted in avoiding the knife (and gun, poison, rabid dog, fall from a great height, garrote, flaming arrow).”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“That was back in the good old days, down at the docks and along the golden shores, when the Wisteria Society still met regularly to discuss knitting patterns and the latest explosives catalog.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“A town house was simply too light; no doubt some castle or cathedral would better contain the forces of her great intellect. Besides, she’d always fancied having one of those portcully thingies at her front door.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“(the same ring with each marriage, for while husbands were easily discarded, a really nice ring, flattering to the finger, was not).”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“Two roads diverged in a yellow-wallpapered room, and we pirates took the better one,”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels