The Charm School Quotes

“She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true. She believed now. The wonder of setting sail created possibilities she had never considered before.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“It was a wonder, after so many years of trying to press herself into society’s mold, to suddenly suspect that the problem was with the mold, not with her.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! —Jane Austen (1798)”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“ובן רגע התחוור משהו לראיין. הוא רצה שהיא תהיה מאושרת. הוא נדהם לגלות עד כמה הוא רוצה בזה. עוד השלכה מטורפת של האהבה שלו כלפיה, הוא רצה את האושר שלה יותר משרצה את נשימת האוויר הבאה שלו. היה מוזר, סוריאליסטי כמעט, לחוש רגשות עזים כל כך. הוא לא רצה שהיא תרגיש עלבון או פחד או אי ודאות. לזה בדיוק רמז ג'רני, אהבה לא הייתה דבר אנוכי. היא הייתה הדחף טוב הלב והנדיב ביותר שיכול להיות לגבר.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“I can see the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled.
Jane Welsh Carlyle, (1845)”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“She inhaled air so damp it seemed to drench her lungs.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“Now she realized that the key to happiness had less to do with setting up housekeeping with an appropriate spouse and more, far more, to do with finding someone who gave one confidence and peace and passion, gifts so rich she had no words for them.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“anything was possible if only she dared to believe herself worthy.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“It’s all to do with the way you carry yourself, the way you face the world.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“The sea was his mistress, one with the power to heal, nurture, love, torture… or destroy at her caprice.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“The disaster came so swiftly and so completely that there was, Ryan conceded, a certain poetry in its magnificence.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“A capital ship for an ocean trip Was the Walloping Window Blind—No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain’s mind. The man at the wheel was taught to feel Contempt for the wildest blow. And it often appeared, when the weather had cleared, That he’d been in his bunk below. —Charles Edward Carryl, Davy and the Goblin: A Nautical Ballad”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“he’d formed the idea that she was a solitary sort, not one to seek company when a good book lay at hand.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“My dear, you are unhappy to the last inch of your shadow. I fear this state is so familiar to you that you no longer recognize it as unhappiness.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“We all have our own unique gifts. It is incumbent upon the larger society to discover them.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School