The Luckiest Lady in London Quotes

“Love was not blind, but it might mimic a deteriorating case of cataracts.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Luckiest Lady in London

“Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Luckiest Lady in London

“… In 1885, when he turned twenty-five, he let out the word that he was ready to settle down with the right girl. The matrons heaved a collective sigh of relief. How wonderful. The boy actually understood his duties to God and country.

He had no intention of marrying, of course, until he was at least forty-five – a society that so worshiped the infernal institution of marriage deserved to be misled. Let them try to matchmake. He did say the right girl, didn’t he? The right girl wouldn’t come along for twenty years, and she’d be a naive, plump-chested chit of seventeen who worshiped the ground on which he trod.

Little could he guess that at twenty-eight he would marry, out of the blue, a lady who was quite some years removed from seventeen, neither naive nor plump-chested, and who examined the ground on which he trod with a most suspicious eye, seeing villany in everything he said and did.

Her name was Louisa Cantwell, and she would be his undoing.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Luckiest Lady in London

“She was proud one moment, covetous the next, and then fearful the moment after that. It would always be like this, wouldn’t it, being the wife of a man she loved but couldn’t trust, whose true motives were as murky as the bottom of the sea?”
― Sherry Thomas, The Luckiest Lady in London

“There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Luckiest Lady in London

“So . . . I don’t trust you and you don’t understand me.” He laughed despite himself. “No wonder we get along so well.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Luckiest Lady in London

“You, sir, are a scoundrel. As if he’d heard her thought, he glanced her way. Their gazes held, a pair of miscreants recognizing each other in a roomful of upstanding people.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Luckiest Lady in London

“I only speak the truth. I quite despise myself for these desires that run amok. But run amok they do. I daresay for the rest of my life I will dream of being fondled by you.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Luckiest Lady in London

“She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Luckiest Lady in London

“Such a lonely feeling, being hopelessly in love.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Luckiest Lady in London

“Because I've never been wanted so much by a woman who dislikes me so. And I would like to experience that fully.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Luckiest Lady in London