Done for the Best Quotes

“Shoot the Earl of Tooleywag down there,” Saye suggested. “Perhaps once she knew you were unable to be a proper husband, the rest would follow naturally.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Surely there is something?” Bingley begged. “I cannot go through with it. I cannot! I am twenty-three years old, and the most optimistic outcome I can think of is an early death.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“With child?” Bingley looked as if the notion had never before occurred to him. “You do know how all of that works, do you not?” Saye enquired. “Allow me to explain. First you will want to⁠—”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“I have been ill, and recovering from a grave injury, and you have taken advantage of that weakness⁠”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“He nodded. “When did you speak to Bingley?” “He called on me at Gracechurch Street. Evidently, he did not think it would irreparably damage him to be civil to my aunt and uncle.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“but I knew it could not mean you forgot me, or us.” What? Elizabeth felt her heart constrict painfully. “Um, sir, I fear there has been⁠—” “If you tell me you have forgotten me, I shall die. By my own hand!”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“but I knew it could not mean you forgot me, or us.” What? Elizabeth felt her heart constrict painfully. “Um, sir, I fear there has been⁠—” “If you tell me you have forgotten me,”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Was he handsome? Witty? Was he fifty years old and missing his teeth? Did he have odd hairs sprouting from his ears? She suddenly felt as though she might cry and squeezed her eyes shut against it.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“At this, Mrs Bennet threw up her hands and wailed loudly. “Oh! She has gone witless! Oh, she shall never marry now! No man wants a witless woman for a wife!”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“She wishes to go to Italy,” Bingley replied with as much eagerness as one might display for a trip to the smithy for a tooth extraction.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Lizzy spilt hers because she was crying,” Grace informed them all. “While she was at our house. And she said a bad word, she said, ‘Stupid fumble-fingers!’ But she did not know I was there.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“She knew him well enough, and he was proving true to her. She just did not remember it all very well. Hang Charlotte and her opinions!”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation