The Chasing of Eleanor Vane Quotes

“If a future husband is upset that I have no hymen, then he may go to hell.”
― Sierra Simone, The Chasing of Eleanor Vane

“Use me however you like, he wanted to tell her. Use me until we both hurt with it.”
― Sierra Simone, The Chasing of Eleanor Vane

“For so long, the man he’d been had been buried under a cairn of grief, and now it was as if all the rocks had tumbled free, as if he’d somehow been alive all this time.”
― Sierra Simone, The Chasing of Eleanor Vane

“No, for a brief moment, she had looked at Jarrell like she wanted to know what his skin would feel like against her teeth.”
― Sierra Simone, The Chasing of Eleanor Vane

“It is the possibility itself that is the most potent,” she said after a while. “The potential of anything. When you are standing in one place, it’s almost as if the future is already written, like a branch that’s been pruned of anything deemed not productive. But the ability to go anywhere, to do whatever you please…”
― Sierra Simone, The Chasing of Eleanor Vane

“And then Eleanor broke the second rule and did something outrageous. She fell in love with the duke.”
― Sierra Simone, The Chasing of Eleanor Vane

“Eleanor couldn’t stop staring at him. He was so unlike her father, and so unlike every preening youth she’d met in London. His very existence was forceful, his very being an energy that couldn’t be controlled or directed. His eyes were a blue so dark they were nearly black, and his mouth”
― Sierra Simone, The Chasing of Eleanor Vane

“So this was to be her reward, then. She’d succeeded at every task she’d set her mind to, and now she’d been given her prize: another unending task of impossible proportions.”
― Sierra Simone, The Chasing of Eleanor Vane