The Mystery of Haverford House Quotes

“Since she'd left she hadn't felt attracted to anybody and wasn't interested in changing that. She wanted to learn to live with herself, to love herself, to be happy with her own company”
― Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House

“She often comes into her sister's room after dinner as though she is afraid to be alone. I think when she is alone she feels the sadness of the house a little more than usual”
― Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House

“Yes but your little village is something else. Everyone knows each other. I mean, everyone knew each other at Oxford, but this is like a proper community.' He had the enthusiasm for the English village of somebody who has never lived in one”
― Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House

“Male violence seems to be something women have lived with since time began," Viola said, biting back her own tears. "And nothing has changed," Emily replied. "Nothing ever changes.”
― Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House

“But I imagine I will grow to love him. He is incredibly handsome after all. It's hard to marry for love when you are the daughter of an earl. You either marry for connection or, as is the case with us, for money. Lots of the bloody stuff”
― Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House

“The fact that Viola and Sebastian had drifted apart hadn't happened on purpose; it wasn't anybody's fault. It had just been the result of two people running away from their own feelings when they should have been talking to each other.”
― Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House

“But I've never been convinced about this idea of hierarchy, that some of us are better than others simply by way of our birth. Surely only fate decides that and we are all the same really. We all deserve the same opportunities”
― Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House

“I guess that sometimes what we think we want isn't good for us in the end”
― Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House

“And it made me realise what women are capable of when they allow themselves, when they break free from what society tells them they need to be”
― Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House

“I am a different person to the one who left home five years before and that is partly to do with the other staff at Haverford. They have become friends. I hadn't realised I was lonely before when I lived at home. Perhaps it's not until things change that we notice what they were like before”
― Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House

“It isn't right if you ask me,' Cook says. 'Women have no need of an education.' 'Well luckily nobody is asking you,' Mrs Derbyshire snaps at her, showing a rare glimpse into her inner thoughts. 'Women have as much right to an education as men”
― Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House

“I can't remember a time when I didn't want to read. My mother taught me my letters before I started at the little village school and I would pull out one of the few books that we had at home and try to make sense of those letters on the page”
― Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House