The Spymistress Quotes

“Hope is never false. One's hopes may not be fulfilled, but that doesn't not mean it was wrong to hope”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Spymistress

“Hope is never false. One’s hopes may not be fulfilled, but that does not mean it was wrong to hope.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Spymistress

“And as Miss Austen wrote, ‘It is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public! A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable, old maid! The proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Spymistress

“He nodded, rueful. “I immediately caught myself”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Spymistress

“brothers and I finished digging the grave he had already begun, and we buried him in the company of Mr. Orrick’s wife and two good German women, neighbors”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Spymistress