Forever Your Earl Quotes

“A journalist and a woman were the two most inquisitive creatures on earth. Combine them, and only a cat can rival her for curiosity.”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl

“Free of the burden of womanhood, where every shadow contained a threat and numerous doors were closed to her.”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl

“Filthy, cramped, hot, with smoke-stained timbered beams crossing the low ceiling. The structure hadn’t been built so much as grown, like a fungus.”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl

“We’re slow-moving targets, us writers of entertainment. They call us hacks, panderers, scribblers. You name an insult, I’ve heard it: our readers are fools; the writers themselves are imbeciles; we have no talent. And God forbid a woman should attempt to write something that isn’t moralistic tripe. Then the insults are tripled.” She”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl

“That apple,” Ashford said, “didn’t fall close to the tree. In fact, it threw itself off the tree’s branches, rolled down a hill, and straight into the nearest theater box, where it surrounded itself with a variety of strawberries of dubious repute.” Eleanor”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl

“Another strained silence fell, like a mostly dead mouse dropped at one’s feet by a cat. She”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl

“The colors and cut of the gown flattered her. In the most excruciating manner.”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl

“Courtesy often disarmed disrespect.”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl

“Privilege had a way of holding the world at bay.”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl

“It wasn’t sportsmanlike for a man to be so annihilating to a woman’s self-control. He ought to be regulated, like a weapon.”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl

“Reckless behaviour is not the sole province of the young.”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl

“That’s faith for you. It exists in the face of total absence of evidence.”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl

“He paced over to his bedside table and pulled a book from a drawer. The Duchess’s Secret, by “A Lady of Dubious Quality.” The latest sensational erotic novel by the anonymous female author. The books had been making the covert rounds, traded in clubs and card rooms, thin volumes slipped easily from pocket to pocket. But Daniel had the sneaking suspicion that more than a few women were also reading the salacious books.”
― Eva Leigh, Forever Your Earl