The Doll Factory Quotes

“He turns to the butler, who is clearing the plates: “Thank you, Smith.” “How can it tire you?” Millais asks. “Isn’t it beautiful, real, where true emotions reveal themselves honestly? Not stifled by convention, but rather expressing passion, heroism, spiritual awakening—” “But that’s quite it,” Louis says. “These feelings are not real.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory

“You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it makes you a rake, but it makes me a whore.' He flinches, and she says it again, louder. 'Yes, a whore! And what of my principles? What of the way I'm looked at, sneered at even by your charwoman? Your mere mistress - and if you discarded me I'd have nothing.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory

“And a girl with loose red hair, running.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory

“Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory

“accounting”
― Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory