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The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1) QUOTES

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1) QUOTES

1 " You are a scoundrel," she whispered furiously.

"Yes," he agreed. "I'm thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels."

"You're millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

2 " We are exactly that, Signor. Corsairs, robbers, pirates. I, however, am also a bibliophile, and you are impeding my visit to the library. So either assassinate me now and get it over with, or kindly step aside. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

3 " We have only three laws in our Society, Cecilia. No killing civilians. Pour the tea before the milk. And no stealing each other’s houses. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

4 " Nothing is easier than to admit the truth of the universal struggle to find a good parking space. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

5 " Italian,” Cecilia said, disappointment withering each syllable. “You need to be a bit older before you can attract a proper assassin, my dear,” Miss Darlington advised from the interior. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

6 " Two roads diverged in a yellow-wallpapered room, and we pirates took the better one, "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

7 " that’s enough history for today. Come and learn how to kill someone with a teaspoon. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

8 " It is violence that best overcomes hate, vengeance that most certainly heals injury, and a good cup of tea that soothes the most anguished soul”; thus ran the motto of the Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

9 " Charming man, shame she would have to assassinate him one day soon. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

10 " What we need is female suffrage," Cecilia opined as she laid lemon slices, cut into the shape of flowers, atop the tea.

"I'm not so sure of about that," Lady Armitage argued. "We suffer enough as it is. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

11 " I’m not sure what astonishes me most,” Cecilia replied, “that we didn’t think of it, or that a man on his own actually asked for directions. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

12 " A real assassin would hire a sensible tailor. And a barber. And would not attempt to murder someone five minutes before luncheon. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

13 " Ghosts aren't real," Olivia Etterly had assured her with the authority of a woman who had killed enough people to know. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

14 " I'm afraid I've done nothing at all to advance the plot."
"You chose to come away with me," Ned reminded her.
"So this is merely romance," she frowned disapprovingly. "I was hoping for an epic adventure, or a gothic mystery at the very least."
Ned laughed. "Darling, don't worry, the story has just begun. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

15 " Half of what I’m wearing is unmentionable. Suffice it to say, if you were dressed as a woman, you would understand the impossibility of going to bed in your clothes. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

16 " No one would help steal the houses of their fellow Society members,” Cecilia insisted. He gave her an amused frown. “Why not? Half of you are trying to assassinate the other half.” “That’s different. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

17 " Granted, she did fly that bookshop into the Serpentine when they told her they didn’t stock any Dickens novels, but that only shows a praiseworthy enthusiasm for literature. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

18 " Crash! The two women looked over at the window as it shattered. A grenade tumbled onto the carpet. Cecilia expelled a sigh of tedium. She snapped the book shut, wended her way through the furnishings, pulled back the drapes, and deposited the grenade through the broken windowpane onto the terrace, where it exploded in a flash of burning light, brick shards, and fluttering lavender buds. "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

19 " Even so, she’d tried all she could to smooth troubled waters. But Darlington had rudely persisted in avoiding the knife (and gun, poison, rabid dog, fall from a great height, garrote, flaming arrow). "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)

20 " (After all, the Wisteria Ladies’ Junior Division motto was: “Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and hopefully the other person dies.”) "

― India Holton , The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)