A Little Light Mischief Quotes

“He wore a diamond cravat pin at dinner,” Alice said. She wanted that cravat pin. She wanted six cravat pins. She wanted to pave a road with cravat pins stolen from lying reprobates. She was an avenging angel, she was justice with her scales, she was going to steal a diamond.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“Her fingers were warm, and her touch gentle. And Alice didn't know what to do with either warmth or gentleness.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“There's nothing that can't be cured with lip rouge and strong drink.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“Twenty minutes later, Alice, using fearsome needles that looked like small stilettos more than the sort of thing a lady would use to produce cushions for the front parlor, locked and unlocked the door to their room, her own traveling case, and Mrs. Wraxhall’s jewel box.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“As for laws, it turned out that she didn’t give a fig for them. They were all made up by gentlemen who didn’t have to worry about having their lives come undone because one man decided to wave his prick about.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“Surely having one’s life stolen out from under one’s feet counted for more than livestock.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“And so it was, if you were blind and had no taste in either gowns or women. Christ, but she looked like one of those marble statues the gentry fussed over. Every other woman would look like gaudy rubbish beside her.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“Right. Forgot about that. It must be a terrible shock for fine ladies, never to see a proper cock until they’re married.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“Bastard. I’ll never understand why men need to show the world their pricks. We’ve all seen them.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“They were holding hands, and the only reason they were doing it was that they both wanted to. They wanted to touch one another. There was no escaping from that basic fact: Alice wanted, and was wanted in return.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“She did not know why she had expected Molly to smell like mystery and intrigue, foreign perfumes and rich musk. Instead she smelled like a person who had a job and a child and a purpose in life, not merely a vague infinity of breasts and hips and crooked grins.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“it occurred to Alice that she might prefer a bit of honest profanity to the alternating miseries of crockery-throwing and sermonizing.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“Molly cut him a glare. It didn’t matter if he was telling the truth. In her experience, lads generally deserved a nasty glare and Molly was willing to do her part.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“Alice was momentarily taken aback. Justice was in the same category as diamonds and gold—utterly unavailable to her, and therefore not worth thinking about. She was rather surprised that Mrs. Wraxhall still believed in it. But then again, people clung to stupid ideas long past the point of reason. She glanced at the parcel in her hands. Hope was one of them.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief

“Never had Molly seen such a proliferation of gray. It was as if Miss Stapleton had her own personal fog that followed her about.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Little Light Mischief