Emma Brown Quotes

“Please forgive my appearance. I am lately come from setting a house on fire.”
― Clare Boylan, Emma Brown

“She is insolently grown-up for her size. I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading.”
― Clare Boylan, Emma Brown

“I see something of a comrade in you. You like a book. Silent revelation on a page pleases you better than a self-bolstering display of verbal spillage. What do you see in me?”
― Clare Boylan, Emma Brown

“Those who have been in the grip of passion will know its suffocating strength. It shuts down all the normal senses, occludes judgement, leaves one feeling weak and fevered.”
― Clare Boylan, Emma Brown