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Victoria Thompson QUOTES

1 " Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly. "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder in Murray Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #16)

2 " I want to know why you don’t like me, Malloy. I like you, even if you do hit people.”
He sighed. “I never said I didn’t like you, Mrs. Brandt.”
Reasonable again. She wanted to smack him. “And why don’t you ever call me Sarah? You think I’m beautiful, but you never call me Sarah.”
He muttered something she didn’t understand.
“You do think I’m beautiful,” she insisted. “You said so!”
“Yes, I do,” he said grudgingly. “And I do like you, Sarah. Now let’s talk about something else, because you’re going to be very embarrassed if you remember any of this conversation tomorrow. "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Washington Square (Gaslight Mystery, #4)

3 " Did you take a vow of poverty or something?"
"This is a housedress, Malloy," she said, indignant again. "I was cleaning when you came. I gave my other clothes away because I got some new ones. From my mother."
"Did your mother take a vow of poverty? "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Mulberry Bend (Gaslight Mystery, #5)

4 " And I still want to know why you hit that man in front of me. You wanted me to see it, didn’t you?”
“Why would I want you to see it?”
Sarah was getting very annoyed with him. He usually wasn’t this dense. “Because you wanted me to think badly of you, and I demand to know why!”
“You do, do you?” he said in a very odd tone.
“Yes, I do, and I’m not getting out of this cab until you tell me!”
“I don’t want to tell you.”
“Then what do you want?”
She knew he was looking at her, although she doubted he could see very much in the darkness. “I want to show you,” he said. "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Washington Square (Gaslight Mystery, #4)

5 " Was that all it took?"
"What?" she asked, completely bewildered.
"To shut you up," he clarified with a definite grin this time. "All it took was agreeing with you."
She glared at him. "If you'd ever tried agreeing with me before, you'd have known that," she snapped.
"I had to wait until you were right about something," he replied, then hurried to open the door before she could smack him, which she dearly wanted to do. "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Waverly Place (Gaslight Mystery, #11)

6 " One woman couldn’t change the world. She could just make small parts of it better. "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Astor Place (Gaslight Mystery, #1)

7 " Too many guilty people get off scot-free if they have money or influence. "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Lenox Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #7)

8 " Influenza. Remember, Elizabeth, I had it back in the spring? A lot of other people did, too. It wasn’t too bad, although I do hate to be sick, but it’s back now, with a vengeance. "

― Victoria Thompson , City of Scoundrels (Counterfeit Lady, #3)

9 " the city,” he said diplomatically. "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Washington Square (Gaslight Mystery, #4)

10 " Frank pitied anyone naïve enough to believe they could predict with certainty how another human being would act. "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Lenox Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #7)

11 " Churches are full of sinners, not saints, "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Lenox Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #7)

12 " Wooten, for any reason, you would have a difficult time even bringing "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Lexington Avenue (Gaslight Mystery, #12)

13 " Try not to dwell on what you might have done differently. You cannot change the past, and it only spoils the future. "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder in Chelsea (Gaslight Mystery, #15)

14 " in-law told her she’d have to leave?” Maria shrugged. “She was "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder in Little Italy (Gaslight Mystery, #8)

15 " Women don’t vote, so they don’t have to pay attention to what we want. If we could vote, though, they’d have to pay attention, and they’d have to pass the laws we want. "

― Victoria Thompson , City of Lies (Counterfeit Lady, #1)

16 " Why did people think having a job was such a great thing? No matter how much fun you had the night before, you still had to get up early, get shaved and dressed, and go to some business where people expected you to be pleasant and do some work. "

― Victoria Thompson , City of Shadows (Counterfeit Lady #5)

17 " The dead woman was Sarah Brandt. "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Mulberry Bend (Gaslight Mystery, #5)

18 " It wasn’t Sarah. Sarah wasn’t dead. "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Mulberry Bend (Gaslight Mystery, #5)

19 " Near as she could figure, government was just the biggest of the big cons, with everybody trying to get the best of it for themselves and sting the other guys. "

― Victoria Thompson , City of Lies (Counterfeit Lady, #1)

20 " The Checkered Game of Life was a real game, invented by a young draftsman named Milton Bradley in 1860. Checkered referred both to the board, which was patterned like a checkerboard, and also to the checkered way life sometimes goes. No dice were included because of their connection to gambling and because "

― Victoria Thompson , Murder on Trinity Place (Gaslight Mystery, #22)