Simone’s Reviews > The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy > Status Update

"If I'm a cactus, she's a very argumentative rose bush and I've drawn my own blood again by reaching out." -Felicity 🌵🌹

"So if you can't win the game, you cheat. You operate outside the rules they've built to fence you in. You rob them in the dark while they're drunk on spirits you offered them. Poisoned their waters and drink only wine. It's
what Sybil Glass did." -Sim

"Felicity Montague, you are a cactus." -Sim
"Or maybe I'd be a flower, but a really tough flower." - Felicity
"A wildflower. The kind that are strong enough to stand against the wind. Rare and difficult to find and impossible to forget." -Sim 🌸

"I have spent so long building up my fortress, and learning to tend it alone, because if I didn't feel I needed anyone, then I wouldn't miss them if they weren't there. I couldn't be neglected if I was everything to myself." 💔

Okay, I REALLY have to stop with the quotes or I'll never finish this. Damn OCD & Lee's beautiful writing!

"I want to apologize. I want to explain that I had felt then like I was losing the only person who knew me and still liked me. Had tried to keep her unchanged because while all the other girls were growing out of their childhood fancies, mine were starting to root in my soul, leaving me strange and unruly. That Johanna made me feel natural."

"You stopped taking me seriously when I stopped being the kind of woman I had to be to be considered intelligent and strong. All those things you say make men take women less seriously, I don't think it's men. It's you!"

"Charm has never been a flower that blooms in your garden." 🌷

For a smart girl, she can be extremely dense.

I knew he was sketchy!

After the way he just talked to her, saying she was the inferior sex, I can't think of a single reason she should still help him. Through he's probably right about no one else giving her the same opportunity but I'm not sure it's worth it. He's not who she thought he was & he's sketchy.

How does being his secretary, I'm sorry, assistant, in his office in London have to do with his expedition? He said that he found a place for her on his staff for the expedition! I don't think that's what she had in mind.