Sweet Caroline Quotes

“​Indeed, Margaret had fallen asleep in my arms, her small form radiating a surprising amount of warmth. I discovered I did not mind in the slightest that she was creasing my new muslin. ​The old Caroline would have been horrified. ​The new Caroline thinks some things are worth a creased gown. ​Like tiny fingers, and honest hearts, and being exactly who one is meant to be. —”
― Mary Alice Alexander, Sweet Caroline: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“I am beginning to think I might rather prefer being myself, even if it means occasionally forgetting to hold my fan at the most becoming angle. How entirely unfashionable. How very... freeing. Like stepping out without a bonnet and feeling the sun on one's face, propriety be hanged. —✴—”
― Mary Alice Alexander, Sweet Caroline: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“I only ask out of concern for your brother’s welfare. You know how dear he is to me.” About ten thousand pounds a year dear, to be precise.”
― Mary Alice Alexander, Sweet Caroline: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“You know how Charles is—he would fall in love with a hedgerow if it wore a bonnet and smiled at him twice.”
― Mary Alice Alexander, Sweet Caroline: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“​He regarded me with all the warmth of a February morning in Scotland.”
― Mary Alice Alexander, Sweet Caroline: A Pride and Prejudice Variation