“It had felt to her like a horrible breach of manners to show up in someone else’s country and to tell them they were doing everything wrong, and as a consequence, God intended for them all to go to hell.”
― The Devil Comes Courting
― The Devil Comes Courting
“It took some real inattention to detail, reality, and history to call either the Chinese or the varied nations that made up what Britain called India uncivilized, but then English propriety was that rare combination of inattention to everything that mattered coupled with a minute fascination with everything that didn’t.”
― The Devil Comes Courting
― The Devil Comes Courting
“Decide if you want to change the world, or let the world change you.”
― The Devil Comes Courting
― The Devil Comes Courting
“A woman becomes a responsible parent when she stops being an obedient daughter”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“Sometimes she was absentminded. Sometimes it was far better to be absent from reality than present for its harshest truths.”
― The Devil Comes Courting
― The Devil Comes Courting
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