Jane and His Lordship's Legacy Quotes

“They have not lacked for masters or instruction; if they wish for mounts or the means to pursue any peculiar passion, I generally grant their wishes. But my boys earn their rights, by Jove! And not by whining.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and His Lordship's Legacy

“Do not cry for me, Jane--but carry me always in your heart, as one who loved you for that courage to be yourself, and not what convention would have you be. Your Rogue”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and His Lordship's Legacy

“I have not yet learned to ignore Lord Harold's loss. Here, in the simple beauty of this country garden, with the prospect of my family's society always around me, I must know myself even still for a woman set apart. Great love denied has been my burden; and the bastards are silence and loneliness. It is my very singularity I must struggle with now--as perhaps I have always done. It was Lord Harold alone who understood this; and honoured me with his esteem despite the ways in which I shall never be quite like other women.

Or perhaps--as he told me once--because of them.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and His Lordship's Legacy

“...but is it not remarkable, Miss Austen, that the more beauty one possesses, the more one is required to nurture and support it?”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and His Lordship's Legacy