Return to Satterthwaite Court Quotes

“Who says a lady must allow herself to be won? You didn't raise me to be anyone's prize.

I'm no less capable of choosing my future partner than a man. More capable, for I know what sort of person I might happily tolerate for the next forty or more years.”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court

“Honor and integrity always make a difference,”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court

“For the first time in his life, Charles was being pursued by a lady. And such a lady!”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court

“He was grumpy, to be sure. Grumpy, gruff, and occasionally disobliging. But he was going to be hers. She was determined.”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court

“The prospect boosted Kate’s spirits. Not because Mr. Heywood had stolen her heart (the very thought!), but because he’d captured her imagination.”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court

“... Yet they're deliriously happy together."
"Is that what you aspire to? Delirious happiness?"
Her eyes met his as they caught up with the others. "I'll settle for nothing less.”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court

“If I could find but one worthy gentleman -- a man of noble character and firm convictions -- who would be a hero rather than acting the part for personal advantage...that's the man I'd wed.”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court

“Her parents had always said that one could tell a lot about a person by how they treated those they perceived to be beneath them.”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court

“She rarely planned anything, truth be told. It was often better, she’d found, to throw herself fearlessly into the fray and contemplate the consequences of her actions in the aftermath. It was an instinctive strategy.”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court

“Nothing worth having is easy,” she said. “Indeed, the strongest bonds in life are forged by fire.”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court

“In the end, there had been no true heroes there. No genuine villains. Only men fighting other men for reasons none of them wholly understood.”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court

“I'm tired of playing by society's rules. They weren't designed for a lady's happiness.”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court

“For the first time in his life, Charles was being pursued by a lady. And such a lady!
It was unhinged. Unheard-of. Men were the ones who did the pursuing, not the reverse.”
― Mimi Matthews, Return to Satterthwaite Court