The Wolf Princess Quotes

“You have to have diamonds in your soul to be happy.”
― Cathryn Constable, The Wolf Princess

“Mrs. Sharman launched a brief professional smile, like a rocket, at Mr. Tweedie. "Could you spare me one of your girls? Delphine, perhaps?"
"Girls? Girls?" the deputy head replied in confusion, as if, in a school full of them, he had never heard of such a thing as a "girl."
Mrs. Sharman, extending her smile, nodded graciously at this hapless example of the more feeble gender.”
― Cathryn Constable, The Wolf Princess

“We'd better get dressed."
"Give me twenty minutes," Delphine said, pulling on a pale pink silk robe and heading for the bathroom.
"Twenty minutes?" Marianne made a face.
"I couldn't take that long even if I did everything twice," Sophie said.”
― Cathryn Constable, The Wolf Princess

“Marianne lay full-length on her bed, reading a guidebook on Saint Petersburg. "But you know, all I really need to take is a happy smile!" She beamed over the pages at Delphine. "My mother says it's the most important thing to wear!"
"Oh yes, I can just see it on the catwalks," Delphine mused. "Clothes by Yves Saint Laurent . . . lunatic grin by Marianne!”
― Cathryn Constable, The Wolf Princess