In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint Quotes

“That was how she loved, she supposed—recklessly, with abandon. It was why she was so cautious about giving her heart away: because she could not do it by half-measures.”
― Alexandra Vasti, In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint

“If her years as one of the Halifax Hellions had taught Matilda anything, it was that gossip only had power over you if you permitted it to do so, and that the perception of others only mattered if you truly cared about what those people thought.”
― Alexandra Vasti, In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint