Mary > Mary's Quotes

“I am excessively diverted.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.”
― Robin Hobb

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho

“Then you remember the dream,” Mencheres stated. “That bodes ill.”
 
The fear of that made my reply snappy. “Hey, Walks Like An Egyptian, how about for once you drop the formal stuff and talk like you live in the twenty-first century?”
 
The shit’s gonna splatter, start buggin’, yo,” Mencheres responded instantly.
 
I stared at him, then burst out laughing, which was highly inappropriate considering the very grave warning he’d just conveyed.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Destined for an Early Grave

“Good call, Bob.”
― Jan Thomas, Rhyming Dust Bunnies

“Lydia, I couldn't figure you out with a four hundred page manual and a telephone help line.”
― John Conroe, God Touched

“It was possible she’d been too focused on her need for another cocktail to realize we were witnessing one of the portents of the apocalypse. ”The Luidaeg is singing Disney songs.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Brightest Fell

“You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Agnes and the Hitman

“I disbelieved what he was saying so hard that I probably created an alternate universe where it wasn't true.”
― Elliott James, Charming

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
― Jane Austen

“But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.”
― Charles Darwin, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 9: 1861