Patchwork Quotes

“...She is propelled, like an automation, through the whirl of social engagements.I will be as civil to these people as their bad breath will allow.”
― Kate Evans, Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen

“I often think it odd that history should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention, and invention is what delights me in other books.”
― Kate Evans, Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen

“I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed. She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow. I had not a thought concealed from her. It is as if I have lost a part of myself.”
― Kate Evans, Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen