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1 " My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art. "
― Kathleen Baldwin
2 " My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I’m proud of,and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art. "
3 " I picked up a small square shortbread biscuit and stared at it, noting the uneven angles, wishing it were a perfect square, but it was, after all, merely a baked good, and baked goods did not ordinarily form perfect squares. "
― Kathleen Baldwin , A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House, #1)
4 " You say it's too late. In my opinion, only a thimbleful of situations in life are that dire. Death begins and ends that list. Everything else is simply an obstacle that must be dealt with. "
― Kathleen Baldwin , Refuge for Masterminds (Stranje House, #3)
5 " Men are rarely convenient. I suspect they pride themselves on being inconvenient. "
6 " It is the way of nature. If an eligible young women isn’t hunting a man then men will feel compelled to hunt her. "
― Kathleen Baldwin , Lady Fiasco (My Notorious Aunt, #1)
7 " And I learned all those many years ago to stop listening to what people said, and listen instead to what they mean. Some people speak with honey and intend to serve us poison. You, my lord, speak with thorns but yearn for cake. "
8 " Hatred and anger are not the opposites of love, Tess. They are backsides of the same playing cards. It is easier to flip hostile feelings over and find the love and forgiveness that have been hidden there all along, aching to be found, than it is to produce new feelings. "
― Kathleen Baldwin , Exile for Dreamers (Stranje House, #2)
9 " There is a language every sister knows, a language tender beyond words and rarely spoken. It runs like a string between two hearts, and we only pluck that string in times of trouble. This night [...] we speak as sisters. "
10 " "You're here because you're odd. Exceptional Unrelenting, Jane followed me to the edge of the circle. "You're unusual, Georgiana. And that is far more dangerous than any fire." "
11 " For the first time, she felt proud to lay claim to her gender. Perhaps men had life easier. But they would never know this. They would never walk the shadow lands of pain and death to be part of the miracle of life. "
― Kathleen Baldwin , Mistaken Kiss (My Notorious Aunt, #2)
12 " ...the realization that my life is not the sum of who loved me - but rather the sum of who I have loved. "
― Kathleen Baldwin , Harbor for the Nightingale (Stranje House, #4)
13 " Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.” Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805 "
― Kathleen Baldwin , Cut from the Same Cloth (My Notorious Aunt, #3)
14 " Joy means so much more when shared with you. "
15 " Even if I were half dead, drugged to the gills, deaf, dumb, and blind, I would know you were here. How can you expect me to rest when you arouse such madness in me? "
16 " Oh, I suppose they’re not exactly gone, those green boys. It’s rather like a sapling turning into a tree. Can’t scrape off the bark, and whittle it down until you find that sapling again, now can you? No, of course not. The sapling becomes an oak. Forever changed. The realities of that war will remain inside us through heaven or hell. Best try and face it, Ty. Running from it won’t help. You’ll never turn back into the innocent sapling you once were.” Robert lifted his glass and grinned. “My friend, we’ve become a pair of gnarled old trees. "
17 " Why must people always assume we moderns knew more than any of the previous cultures? It simply isn't true, evidence proves otherwise. "
18 " Sing A Song Of Sixpence A Pocketful Of Lies "
19 " I wasn’t certain Sebastian’s teasing was the same. It felt different somehow. Sera clarified, “That’s the way men are.” Jane "
20 " Believing is a lot like trusting. "
