Old Boots Quotes

“I had, you see, become a protégé of Mr. Bennet and learned to care only for the opinions of those I loved.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I never could look at my boots without thinking of her, and a man looks at his boots a hundred times in a day, you know.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Perhaps you might try not to have an answer for everything,” she said.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“If there were ever a mark of quality, it would be the complete acceptance of one’s place in the world—not slighted, lacking, embarrassed, nor even proud.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“We are given perhaps more than we can manage, and we stagger under the load, but sooner rather than later, we take it on and become stronger for it.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Perhaps, without my superior boots, I felt less of a superior man.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Simply put, she hated to be helped, could not stomach appearing weak or incompetent, and loathed the common perception that women were either frail or stupid.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I had gone for the third time to Longbourn, and I had spent a solid hour instilling a particle of discipline in my brainless student—Bandit, not Jane Bennet.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Louisa Hurst was a slightly empty-headed, incurious lady, which was just as well, given her marriage to a lump of flesh who loved only food and drink.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Even Bingley, who is not the sharpest blade in the armory,”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“In truth, she had disappointed me, but I thought I had done an excellent job concealing my sentiments.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I had spent the principal years of my adulthood catering to duty and secretly resenting my endless obligations.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Am I? What have I done that is worse than failing to truckle to your superior self?” “You have ruined my best boots,” I said gravely, “and for that, you are months away from absolution.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation