A Pernicious Fabrication Quotes

“her relative was able to exceed the limitations of her character, then the possibility existed for everyone. Temperaments were not fixed like buildings but mutable like trees.”
― Lynn Messina, A Pernicious Fabrication

“and Bea’s humiliation was merely an unfortunate secondary effect. But that was the problem in a nutshell, was it not? Anything could discompose her. One vaguely unkind word—or in this case a kind one—untethered her from sense and she wound up stammering nonsense in reply.”
― Lynn Messina, A Pernicious Fabrication

“because you are vibrant and capable and I keep an ongoing list of all the vibrant and capable women in society. That can mean only one thing: You hid your vibrancy under a bushel. I do now know why you hid it, but I do know it was there, your grace, the whole time. And I think you are used to either hiding it or hiding from it, and I hope you realize you do not have to do that anymore. You can be just as vibrant and capable in Cambridgeshire as you are in London. It is not nearly as hard as you suppose.”
― Lynn Messina, A Pernicious Fabrication

“how to cough with so much urgency you sound as though you are on the verge of expelling a lung. It is a very useful skill. I launch into one of my fits whenever a man decides to lecture me on a topic of which I know more than he.” Bea laughed and said, “Ah, so once a week?” “At least,” Mrs. Palmer”
― Lynn Messina, A Pernicious Fabrication

“In my head, I am always making both sides of an argument.”
― Lynn Messina, A Pernicious Fabrication