The Late Mrs. Willoughby Quotes

“My mother always says, do not mourn a tragedy before it happens, for then if it comes to pass, you must mourn twice—and if it does not, you have felt sorrow where it was not necessary.”
― Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby

“A great deal of propriety seemed to be rooted in not admitting things everyone knew to be true.”
― Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby

“...Willoughby had sequestered himself in his room. Jonathan half wondered if he had pushed heavy furniture against the door to keep himself safe, then realized this could not be so. That would keep out the servants, he thought, and not even great peril to his life would induce John Willoughby to empty his own chamber pot.”
― Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby

“...she said to Brandon, "If I am found out in Scotland - or if George and I decide Edinburgh is not to our taste - we might always set out for the United States of America."
"You need not stoop to barbarity," Brandon replied. This was a joke, mostly.”
― Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby

“Resentment is , I believe, a more insidious poison than even arsenic," Jonathan said.”
― Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby

“Yet Marianne had learned that happiness unmixed with sorrow was likely not happiness at all, merely illusion.”
― Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby

“Is their poor behavior reason for us to copy it?”
― Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby

“Yet it is ever true that where cleverness is in short supply, confidence can be most abundant,”
― Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby

“Brandon carried in his heart both his true affection for Marianne and the embers of feeling for his long-dead Eliza, so he knew better than most that the spirit can contain more than one passion and that those passions could contradict without ever overcoming each other.”
― Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby

“gossip is not entirely malevolent. Contained within it is much news that people are happy to hear, share, and have shared—loves, births, journeys, and dances.”
― Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby

“Forgiveness blossoms when it will. We can no more demand it come early than we can demand springtime in December.”
― Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby

“Yes, some will assume terrible things, but there is always someone willing to think the worst. It is work for which volunteers are never lacking.”
― Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby