The Dressmaker's Secret Quotes

“Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“Ghosts!” gasped Alice. “Real, live ghosts?”

“No! Not ‘real, live ghosts!’ Spooky, dead ghosts!”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“She didn't think she could be a Christian if perfection was required.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“I’m an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“You see, Miss Chattoway, Miss Elton is very nice, and Phil and Steven are lovely to me, but I really can’t have a conversation with them as I could with another woman.” She paused for a moment then hastily added, “Not that Miss Elton isn’t a woman, but that you can’t really talk with her … if you know what I mean.”         Miss”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“[A]ll these years, I had been telling myself that my feelings for you were a juvenile infatuation; a dream inspired by my secret hope that somewhere there could be a creature who could love me.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah’s flood.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“It’s all in the past, and nothing can ever change it. We have only the present to work with, the future to hope for. No use lingering on the past.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“the latest antics of Kitty, who had chased a fly over a washtub with hilarious but soaking results.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“Idiot woman seems to think she can wean herself off love,”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“How could the girl know that her mother cried herself to sleep that night? Indeed, Miss Claire Marie Chattoway, the woman who never showed her emotions, fell sobbing into her bed and, no matter how she tried, could not seem to hold back her tears.                                                                     Chapter”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“Nothing good in this world comes free! For everything there’s a payment of time or money or soul!”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret