Kelsey Quick > Kelsey's Quotes

“If there's nothing new under the sun, then search above it.”
― Kelsey Quick

“The night,” he repeats, his thumb stroking the skin of my stomach through the fabric of my dress. “That is precisely why people take my kingdom for granted. No one sees the darkness, and yet it’s everywhere. We are surrounded by an entire universe of it. It came before us, it will live on long after us. Even the stars might form and then die, but the darkness will always be there.”
― Laura Thalassa, Rhapsodic

“The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled (Korean Edition): A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values

“Mr. Ravenel is here on a business matter, and the tenants need his attention far more than we do.”
“But Kathleen,” Cassandra said in concern, “we mustn’t let him work himself into exhaustion.”
Kathleen burst out laughing. “Darling, I doubt he’s ever worked a day in his life. Let’s not distract him on his first attempt.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake

“It had played out when, for reasons I don’t understand, I was unable to climb through the mirror and send out my sixteen-year-old self in my place. Until that moment she had always been there. No matter how much I appeared to have changed—how illustrious my education, how altered my appearance—I was still her. At best I was two people, a fractured mind. She was inside, and emerged whenever I crossed the threshold of my father’s house. That night I called on her and she didn’t answer. She left me. She stayed in the mirror. The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self. You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“ Madam,
My sincere thanks for your offer to speak to the tenants regarding the drainage issues. However, since you are already burdened with many demands, I have sent my brother, Weston, to handle the problem. He will arrive at Eversby Priory on Wednesday, and stay for a fortnight. I have lectured him at length about gentlemanly conduct. If he causes you a moment’s distress, wire me and it will be resolved immediately.
My brother will arrive at the Alton rail station at noon on Saturday. I do hope you’ll send someone to collect him, since I feel certain no one else will want him.
Trenear

P.S. Did you really dye the shawl black?

My Lord,
Amid the daily tumult of construction, which is louder than an army corps of drums, your brother’s presence will likely go unnoticed.
We will fetch him on Wednesday.
Lady Trenear

P.S. Why did you send me a shawl so obviously unsuitable for mourning?

In response to Kathleen’s letter, a telegram was delivered from the village post office on the morning of West’s scheduled arrival.

Madam,
You won’t be in mourning forever.
Trenear ”
― Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake

“Sell the damned estate, Devon. You owe nothing to those people. Eversby Priory isn’t your birthright.”
Devon sent him a sardonic glance. “Then how did I end up with it?”
“By bloody accident!”
― Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake

“Once someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time’.”
― Honey Palomino, Gods of Chaos MC Vol. 3

“Sometimes to rediscover the happiness you have lost you need to revisit habits that have laid dormant in the crypt while unhappiness has been allowed to fester.
Open the vault
Pull the happy habits out”
― Renee' A. Lee

“I liked the idea of you
I adored the idea of us
Passion fluid like poetry
Love smothered and dripping with lust.”
― Renee' A. Lee

“Every story has four parts: the beginning, the middle, the almost-ending, and the true ending. Unfortunately, not everyone gets a true ending. Most people give up at the part of the story where things are the worst, when the situation feels hopeless, but that is where hope is needed most. Only those who persevere can find their true ending.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale

“I know you don’t want to make a big deal of it. So I’ll just say this. It’s an honor, okay?”
― Serena Bell, Holding Out

“Cause when I feel lousy
Or lost or I'm nervous
I feel better about me
When I am of service”
― Maria Schriver

“Enslavement is still enslavement, no matter how soft the chains.”
― Kelsey Quick, A Violet Fire

“What most people don't know is that I'm doing all of this—all of it—by myself. I was rejected by everyone except me, so I'm giving it all I got.”
― Kelsey Quick

“In a world where survival relies on a greater power, all freedom can ever be is an insipid ideology. It is a fruitless word crafted for the weak.”
― Kelsey Quick, A Violet Fire