The Scoundrel's Daughter Quotes

“I want to marry you for only one reason—I’m madly, deeply, irrevocably in love with you. More than I ever knew was possible.”
― Anne Gracie, The Scoundrel's Daughter

“Really, nobody worth anything gives tuppence about my background. Oh, some might whisper about it behind my back, but how does that hurt me? It’s who you are and what you do and say that’s important, not where you come from. Are you listening to me, gel?”
― Anne Gracie, The Scoundrel's Daughter

“you don’t get many chances for happiness in this life, and when you get one, you need to seize it and hang on to it.”
― Anne Gracie, The Scoundrel's Daughter

“She wasn’t ever going to let anyone make her feel like that again. She would not allow bitterness and regret to poison her life any longer.”
― Anne Gracie, The Scoundrel's Daughter

“Nonsense. You’ve done nothing to be blamed for, and besides, there’s enough hate in the world. I refuse to add to it.”
― Anne Gracie, The Scoundrel's Daughter

“What do you think it was like to come from a life involving years of hardship and turmoil and boredom and danger and responsibility, and battlefields that stank of blood and mud and worse, with the screams of and groans of the injured and dying-some of them your men and your friends-ringing in your ears? And then the war is over and you come back and try to fit into a society where people are dressed in satin, silk and lace, smelling of perfumes and their most serious problem is deciding who to dance with. Or what to order for dinner. Or how to dress their hair. Or what juicy snippets of gossip they can pass on.”
― Anne Gracie, The Scoundrel's Daughter