Snowbound Quotes

“It is a wonderful collection,” she murmured. “I imagine that exploring it would take longer than a lifetime.” Despite himself, Darcy’s smile widened. “Oh, I believe a lifetime should just about suffice.”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound

“How would it have looked to Jane – and to all her relations, for that matter – if I snivelled and whined ‘Darcy bade me do it’?”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound

“Look at Georgiana. I have not seen her so playful and happy since Wickham crushed her spirit—” “He—! He did?” Elizabeth spluttered.”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound

“I could never have your goodness. If a man had jilted me, I would wish him wedded to a harpy, and I would dearly hope she makes his life a misery.”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound

“It was as though the elements had conspired to keep her at Pemberley until her prejudices and her reservations had melted away.”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound

“May I point out that this is my desk, and it was my father’s before me. The last time I was summoned into this room to account for my actions was when he was alive. Now that he is gone, no one is in a position to call me on the carpet.”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound

“Her heart’s unaccountable choice to leap wildly in her chest, as though intent upon doing somersaults, was of no particular interest to Elizabeth. The question that had just flashed through her mind was of far greater import: was he about to kiss her?”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound

“Young woman, kindly leave that noise to horses. I am not accustomed to such a response in polite society, least of all when I am speaking. But I daresay that, considering your descent, one cannot expect much better. So,”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound

“I remember you,” she said at last. “The dinner at Darcy’s townhouse last May. You are the young woman who kept putting herself forward and could not grasp the difference between wealth and pedigree.”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound

“she was still grateful that she had not disgraced herself before him with such a show of poor judgement.”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound

“Mr Darcy said and proceeded to brush the snow away with slow and very careful motions and an air of concentration which Elizabeth could not but find diverting. Surely the state of her hat did not warrant quite so much attention.”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound

“Needs must when the devil drives.”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound

“Catherine doing here? Of all the times she might have chosen to descend upon him! His scowl deepened. Was he to be hampered by all the vexing creatures in the kingdom?”
― Joana Starnes, Snowbound