A Lady's Guide to Scandal Quotes

“Are you sure he is handsome and not simply very tall?” Margaret asked. “I have often noticed the two are confused.”
― Sophie Irwin, A Lady’s Guide to Scandal

“He had a way, on occasion, of considering you with his whole being, all the movement and the chatter and humor pausing entirely, to focus the entirety of that bright mind directly upon you. It felt—now as it had the first time—rather as if one had stepped into warm sunlight.”
― Sophie Irwin, A Lady’s Guide to Scandal

“For I was overcome.”
― Sophie Irwin, A Lady’s Guide to Scandal

“– Por favor, vá embora – sussurrou Eliza. Melville olhou para ela.
– Eu amo você – disse ele.
– Não acredito em você! – disse ela, com o queixo trêmulo.”
― Sophie Irwin, Manual para damas (mal)comportadas

“Eliza precisou encontrar pequenos prazeres, alegrias silenciosas. Até o momento em que começou a pensar se não estaria se tornando tão pequena e silenciosa que poderia ser guardada na cristaleira e deixada ali até que fosse necessário enfeitar a mesa novamente.”
― Sophie Irwin, Manual para damas (mal)comportadas

“Was she really to allow any man to make such demands of her, anymore? Allow her life to be ordained, in perpetuity, by their high-handed judgements or capricious moods?”
― Sophie Irwin, A Lady’s Guide to Scandal

“There was a reason, she imagined, that the Ladies of Llangollen chose to live in such seclusion, and their romance was only rumoured – and while the consequence of such a relationship being publicly confirmed was not fatal, as it was for men, social exile was still no trifling matter.”
― Sophie Irwin, A Lady’s Guide to Scandal