Round Midnight Quotes

“It was always open season on the admiral’s eldest daughter. Too bad the prey couldn’t fire back.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“he watched her closely, precisely as a man might a dog he was thinking about acquiring.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“He watched her for several beats, and she could almost sense the gears whizzing away inside his head.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“Everyone could sympathize with a woman wronged, but no one could with a woman who wouldn’t let herself be wronged.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“The Betty he knew was flighty, simpering. But this woman, with the fierce light of battle in her eyes, was no pallid maiden. Betty had somehow transformed into an Amazon.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“Her dress of black velvet had roses climbing up the skirt, making her appear as if she were a nymph who’d stumbled into their party. A wood nymph bent on raising hell.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“The woman was on the north side of ninety, had outlived three husbands and two world wars, and she still terrified her family and her neighbors. There wasn’t much more to want in life than that.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“Honestly, after nineteen years of living in a tiny farmhouse with Granny, Betty had some good material. They should let her get through some more of it.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“He wasn’t quite certain how a person could “completely die”—was there such a thing as incomplete death?”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“They started off with a kind of soup that had nothing in it. Joe guessed it was consommé, although he’d never had it before. He took a test sip. Not bad. But he still preferred his soup with actual stuff in it, like a nice chowder.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“Her grief was tidal, and even now, there were days when it swept her out to sea.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“I want to fly. Not like you fly, not literally, in a plane. I want… freedom. Not to be without obligations, but to find freedom within them, somehow. And this must sound insane.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“Like Rosalind, Frances was hiding herself, except she was doing it in plain sight.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“So you see, Midshipman, I don’t think Frances even knows what would make her happy. She’s never had the time to find out.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“But he forgot to eat if she didn’t remind him. His favorite things in the world were cigars, Fig Newtons, and scotch—and he had utterly no idea how to procure them, let alone how to get his suits cleaned or what it took to organize those “little dinners.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight