Silver Buckles Quotes

“Oh!” I replied brightly, “that is my mother. I am dancing with the richest man in Derbyshire, and she is planning our wedding.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“He has caused me to weep in public.” “Terrible. So, will you make him pay for it by marrying him?”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Do you not see? I have fallen in love with you, Mr. Darcy, and things being unequal as they are, it would be kind of you to find an excuse for our not accepting your invitation.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“if you please, consider your sister Mary—who is staring at you as hopefully as a spaniel in want of a walk”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“People were either useful or in the way, but they were never deserving of my notice.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Survival, I mused darkly, is sometimes an uncomfortable business.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Elizabeth Bennet, you may say anything to me, anytime you wish to say it. Even if you enrage me, I prefer to know what you are thinking to having you mince around me as though you are addressing a fragile prince. What is it you want to know?”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I said in a far gentler tone, “There are no obstacles, my love. I am a gentleman, and you are a gentleman’s daughter. We belong to one another, and I mean to have you, even if I must pull you aside and shout at you a hundred times over.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“There is always a witch, an ogre, a drunk, or a fool hung somewhere on the family tree.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Lewis de Bourgh was a drunkard, which explained both his ability to be married to my aunt and his early escape from her on account of dropsy.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“When we were boys, we referred to Lady Catherine as Black Annis, a witch of lore who ate lambs and children and hung their skins outside her hut.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Black Annis”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“with all the serenity of a Bedlamite in mental crisis.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“You are a Darcy, love. We are not stupid. Proud and disagreeable perhaps, but never stupid.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“The man’s pride, taciturn nature—his unvarnished sense of superiority notwithstanding—and even his harshness were unbearably attractive to me.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“thought of Charlotte and Jane and the dark truth of being a woman. We have no power. We have no safety to call our own unless we are independently wealthy and living in seclusion. We are kept like objects, and we must be careful—exceedingly careful—to find a man who treats his possessions well.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I do not care for country society overmuch, but I shall own to their excellence in one thing: they arrive at a ball on time. None of the fashionable hour-and-a-half late entrances for these people. They valued their entertainments too much to be cavalier.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“How delightful! We shall select a very good wall to uphold. You will stand there, righteously indignant at the vulgarity of Hertfordshire society, I shall sit wretchedly beside you, wishing I could be out there with the rabble, and together we shall watch the enjoyment of others while provoking one another.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“But how gracious of you to help my cousin Elizabeth! Such a naughty puss for running from me, but we shall have her set to rights in no time.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I thought Mary might willingly have our cousin because she was too pious to notice his stupidity. But given a few years, she would see that her husband was a dogmatic imbecile.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I am Miss Elizabeth, sir. Our hovel is just over three miles from the palace of Netherfield. You might see me pulling turnips from the garden if you pass that way tomorrow.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation