Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth Quotes

“feel it incumbent upon me as your stepmother to inform you that you are not capable of knowing what is best for yourself.”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“The scandal that would ensue if anyone saw her alone with her cousin!”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“Either she has something to say, or she does not. There is never any need for listening.”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“She had had fleeting thoughts here and there of the misfortune of being only a stepdaughter rather than a true daughter; now, she saw that she and her sisters were unfairly deprived of even a daughter’s place. Their father could have used his influence to secure them more from his wife, but he did not.”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“It is sometimes assumed by men that women are in need of their guidance, presuming a lack of intelligence where only a very natural silence exists—perhaps caused by dislike and a wish of the conversation ending.”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“daresay a great many things appear improper to others that would not appear so to you.”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“The ladies entered the ballroom, which the Hadleys used exclusively for parties,”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“I appreciate that you are now willing to converse with me due to my connection to the Radcliffe family—but for my part, any favor done for me on such terms may as well be left undone. I do not want friends whose attention is purchased by that connection, for it is nothing to me. You may as well continue to think of me as you did before—that I am but the niece of a tradesman, and the daughter of a widower”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“Papa is not concerned for our welfare, then why should you be?”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“saw The Beggar’s Opera at the Haymarket. It was divine!” Elizabeth could not quite comprehend a mind that would characterize The Beggar’s Opera as divine, and therefore she remained silent while Jane replied.”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“she liked to be surrounded by fashionable young ladies, and Jane and Elizabeth were just the thing to suit.”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“but these were enough to satisfy the vanity of Mr. Dixon, who was inclined to believe that others agreed with him rather oftener than they did.”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“Mr. Pembroke said abruptly, and though he reached out to shake both ladies’ hands,”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“Mr. Pembroke must be intelligent—or at least rich enough never to be considered truly stupid.”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“Lady Sarah, on the other hand, was eager to have her stepdaughters married so that she could stop thinking about them.”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance

“Since a little girl, Elizabeth felt she had been waiting for something—though she hardly knew for what.”
― Alyssa Jefferson, Mr. Darcy & Elizabeth: The Fashionable and Young: a Pride and Prejudice Variation Romance