Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor Quotes

“There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

“It is ever thus. We find the words to speak when all hope of converse is past.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

“The world, however bleak I have found it in the last few weeks, must nonetheless be formed of goodness, if but a few moments in Nature’s company may suffice to renew one’s health and mental aspect.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

“...the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders and the stiff hedges to fall at the feet of a stone nymph, her cascade of water frozen in her urn.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

“I cannot know what it is to be beautiful and possessed of easy means; my conquests have ever been made against the better instincts of the men in my acquaintance, a tribute to my lively mind and good humour.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

“No sun shall rise today for human eyes to see; the world entire is wrapped round in whirling white, an impenetrable cloud of cold and ice that chills the heart as it freezes the ground.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

“Tom Hearst is altogether a scapegrace, a rake, and possibly a dangerous fellow, with his likeable face, his vigourous dancing, and his easy manners; a man who might do with a woman as he liked, having once won her heart.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

“We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

“I admire your courage. It is rare to find a woman who places her personal happiness above her fears for the future.”
― Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor