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41 " Its nice to know that your common sense stands between me and the grave. "
― Lauren Willig , The Deception of the Emerald Ring (Pink Carnation, #3)
42 " Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET YOUR BLACK TULIPS HERE. Every nerve in my body was on man-alert, screaming, "incoming! "
― Lauren Willig , The Masque of the Black Tulip (Pink Carnation, #2)
43 " [He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary. "
― Lauren Willig , The Garden Intrigue (Pink Carnation, #9)
44 " That was the problem with snide comments; they invariably lost all their punch on repetition. Besides, when facing impending death, what did the odd witticism matter? "
45 " I know historians aren’t supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie’s Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation’s organization look positively humdrum. "
46 " It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better. "
47 " Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying thought. "
― Lauren Willig , The Mischief of the Mistletoe (Pink Carnation, #7)
48 " The use of charm as a tool made her hackles rise. She respected a more direct approach. A battering ram approach. At least one knew where one stood with the battering ram, none of this butter-wouldn't-melt nonsense that could mean yes, no, or maybe. "
― Lauren Willig , The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (Pink Carnation, #10)
49 " The leaves do fad and fall away, / Berries rot and sheaves decay; / The deer is fled back to the field. / That is all your promises yield. / All wind and words, your vows, I see, / Are barren as the fruitless tree. "
50 " Imagination was all very well in the daylight, but it was an uncomfortable thing late at night. "
― Lauren Willig , The Ashford Affair
51 " All this rapture,” managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother’s grasp, “is decidedly premature. "
52 " There's nothing like competing for your boyfriend's attention with an emotionally needy sibling to make you feel like the worst sort of evil psycho-bitch. "
― Lauren Willig , The Betrayal of the Blood Lily (Pink Carnation, #6)
53 " It hurt to kill a dream, like tearing petals off a rose in full bloom. "
― Lauren Willig , The English Wife
54 " Her mother would be appalled, but she wouldn't say anything. She would just telegraph her distress with tightened lips and raised brows. She was good at that. Clemmie's mother's brows were better than sign language, complicated concepts conveyed with the minimum of movement. "
55 " It was very hard to rant while accepting a cup of tea. "
56 " That's a good point, I suppose,' he said in that way people have when you've just said something that's so off the mark it might as well be in Sanskrit, but they like you, so they want to make something positive out of it so they can give you the credit you both know you don't deserve. "
― Lauren Willig , The Temptation of the Night Jasmine (Pink Carnation, #5)
57 " This was Hist and Lit, after all. If you couldn't work the term "liminal" into your tutorial, you were doing it wrong. "
― Lauren Willig , The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla (Pink Carnation, #11)
58 " Even Sally wound't want to cross fans with the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale. The woman had a tongue of steel and drank the blood of young virgins for breakfast. "
59 " Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies. "
― Lauren Willig , The Orchid Affair (Pink Carnation, #8)
60 " His look felt like a touch "