The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Quotes

“Is it immoral to marry a man solely to gain a library? And if that man happens to be tremendously good looking, is it more or less of a sin?”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“It was Hawkes who gave voice. “Alchemy.” I shivered. That mythical pursuit that turns disparate elements to gold.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“Of course I’m coming with you. Don’t be daft. My friends do not go to war alone.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“Yet here I was, determined to fight in the shade. I felt lifted. Noble. Spartan.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“I expect you want tea, now that you’ve driven my curiosity a country mile and abandoned it on the side of the road?”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“Bless a man who knows how to keep his own counsel when you can’t bear to speak.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“He said nothing, did nothing but keep me close. I, feeling like a ghost he kept chained to earth.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“Novel writers, bless them, are such strange birds.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“Well, let us hold the pass. No traitors among us.
WE WILL FIGHT IN THE SHADE.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“JOLLY GOOD FUN!” they all cried out.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“And a Wordsworth sonnet,
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers…”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“we were happily laughing when we came round a corner to meet a familiar mustache, which happened to be attached to the face of my banker, Mr. Penury.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“I nearly sliced it clean off?” he retorted. “If I remember, you were the one who had gotten hold of your uncle’s sword—” “That small fact is not overly relevant to how you looked, Roland,” I insisted, taking off my gloves. “Did it scar?”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“I sit at the very top of a fresh month with a choice before me. One which very well may have an impact on the whole of my existence. Which book do I read next?”

-Emma M Lion”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“Felicity is the gift of a book.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“But love and trust are not the same”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“Credo quia absurdum.” “What does that mean?” “I believe because it is absurd.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“They might not be of the Old Testament variety—Pierce”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“In few words”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“I answered by holding up his two letters. “The basket could scarcely contain them. Your warning was warranted.” It was then I captured his full attention. He stopped what he was doing, smiled with menace (menace, I say!), his eyes challenging. “Just you wait, Emma. You will rue the day.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“One evening”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“Any reservations you have regarding such a plan should be dismissed without thought. My opinions outrank yours in every way.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“And if that man happens to be tremendously good looking”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“She tapped her finger against her chin and said”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“You’re not half so bad once you get dolled up a bit”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“I shivered. How many times does one have to be left to the dead?”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“You are wise in this thing. However”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“Is it immoral to marry a man solely to gain a library? And if that man happens to be tremendously good looking”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

“And as for your misled determination at being lighthearted”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4