The Case of the Left-Handed Lady Quotes

“Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.”
― Nancy Springer, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

“Yet one could speak truth and still be a villain”
― Nancy Springer, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

“The only way for me to be safe and free was to be - be what my name decreed me. Enola. Alone.”
― Nancy Springer, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

“the greatest harm I could possibly suffer would be to lose my liberty, to be forced into a conventional life of domestic duties and matrimony.”
― Nancy Springer, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

“If any decent woman's calling consisted of taking her proper place in society (husband and house, plus voice lessons and a piano in the drawing-room), then this particular woman-to-be prefers to remain indecent.”
― Nancy Springer, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

“My dear sister...

His dear sister.

Those words - how oddly they affected me”
― Nancy Springer, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

“To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman.”
― Nancy Springer, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

“To S.H. & M.H.: Rot. E.H.”
― Nancy Springer, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

“A talented artist who has unfortunately turned her energies to the cause of women’s so-called rights.”
― Nancy Springer, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

“ABCDE FGHIJ KLMNO PQRST UVWXYZ And each part has five letters, except the last; but Z is used so seldom that it can be lumped together with Y. I then wrote my real message to Mum,”
― Nancy Springer, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady