The Inconvenient Duchess Quotes

“One can aim high, hoping to hit a star, and miss the target entirely.”
― Christine Merrill, The Inconvenient Duchess

“is a pearl, and a pearl buried in a dung heap is no less valuable for its surroundings.”
― Christine Merrill, The Inconvenient Duchess

“She was going to focus on the task before her. Not one step behind. Not one mile ahead. Just one step at a time until she could walk herself out of the maze she was lost in.”
― Christine Merrill, The Inconvenient Duchess

“Sometimes it strengthens a marriage to see the worst and find the sweetness of happiness later.”
― Christine Merrill, The Inconvenient Duchess

“With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship and with all my worldly goods I thee endow’,”
― Christine Merrill, The Inconvenient Duchess

“This is the life you belong to, not the life you’ve lived so far. The past is an aberration. The future is merely a return to the correct path.”
― Christine Merrill, The Inconvenient Duchess

“It is not who you appear to be that matters. It is who you are. Despite circumstances, you are a lady. You were born to be a lady. If you remember this, people will treat you accordingly.”
― Christine Merrill, The Inconvenient Duchess

“stage death with such Drury Lane melodrama. He left the words unspoken, struggling for decorum, but glared at the carefully arranged scene. She’d chosen burgundy velvet hangings and dim lighting to accent her already pale skin. The cloying scent of the lilies on the dresser gave the air a funereal heaviness. ‘No, my son, we will not be having this conversation again. The things I have to tell you will be said today. I do not have the strength to tell them twice, and certainly will not be here at Christmas to force another promise from you.’ She gestured to the water glass at the bedside. He filled it and offered it to”
― Christine Merrill, The Inconvenient Duchess