The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes Quotes

“I’m . . . a little afraid.” She pressed her forehead to his chest as she shivered. “Not of the pain, but what it might mean if I truly did set myself free.” “I swear to you that if you fall, I’ll catch you. But I know that you aren’t going to fall. You’ll soar.”
― Eva Leigh, The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes

“Love's a complicated thing," she said. "It seldom exists in its purest form.”
― Eva Leigh, The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes

“Men think that they’re champions if they don’t behave like beasts. Hurrah, you’ve done the absolute minimum.”
― Eva Leigh, The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes

“Depending on others to bring us happiness leads to disappointment.”
― Eva Leigh, The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes

“So long as no one’s harmed in its getting,” he said, his voice low, “we ought to be free to find our joy where we can. God knows that in this life, none of it’s guaranteed.”
― Eva Leigh, The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes

“me in, but perhaps they’ve done such an effective job of telling me what I can’t do, now I tell myself what’s impossible.” “Implanting the seeds of doubt in you, so they barely have to do the work themselves.”
― Eva Leigh, The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes

“Everyone was eager to hear of someone else’s misbehavior, if only to feel marginally better about their own paper-thin lives and spongy morality.”
― Eva Leigh, The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes

“We’re not always who the world believes us to be.”
― Eva Leigh, The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes