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A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3) QUOTES

A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3) QUOTES

1 " Imagine Sir Walter Scott, but if every woman in English history dabbled in witchcraft or murder. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

2 " He didn’t have the imagination to orchestrate illicit liaisons, nor the cunning to do anything sly. He had all the subtlety of a puppy, all the capacity for guile of a newborn baby. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

3 " Perhaps Mr. Goddard does not understand that people can amuse themselves by hurling polite insults at one another and accusing one another of sloppy research and utter illogic. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

4 " This isn’t a book about deportment. It’ll have any child deporting themselves right out of polite society,” he said. “And right into prison, if my mother’s any example. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

5 " She’s not a peaceable woman, my mother. She wrote that book because she didn’t think the world needed another generation of peaceable women, or complacent adults of any gender. I do wish she could see Leontine. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

6 " What I mean is that if we try to mend this”—oh, God help him, he was about to launch into an extended engineering metaphor—“we need to make sure it’s, um, structurally sound. Better than before. No gaps in knowledge or intent. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

7 " The rules as we know them might work wonderfully for most people, but they’re absolute rubbish for anyone who’s a little different. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

8 " There would always be a part of Sydney that saw a structurally unsound pile of stones and greeted it as a welcome challenge. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

9 " Georgiana had come to Derbyshire to tempt men into wickedness by performing such risqué acts as existing while being pretty. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

10 " Like most Friends his age, Sydney adopted a fairly flexible approach: he used titles when he had to, usually with shareholders in the railway who needed to be cosseted and cajoled, and he hated it every time. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

11 " Otherwise, when speaking with a person with whom he wasn’t intimate enough to use a first name, he used their full name. Or, as in this case, he could presume a little and skip right to using given names. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

12 " She’d urge you to forsake Mammon and cast your sights heavenward,” he lied. What she would actually do was attempt to persuade Lex to sign some kind of petition about mill workers, then leave with a hefty subscription to one of her favorite charities. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

13 " She knew she shouldn’t have said anything. But here she was, sated and happy and warm and she stupidly felt like she could be honest with this man. “Don’t be like that,” she said. “Don’t mystify my hymen. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

14 " He suspected that this was more serious for him than it was for her, because in his experience everything was always more serious for him than it was for everyone else around him. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

15 " I don’t want to talk about dukes.” His voice was low, almost a growl. “Bollocks on every last one of them.” “Are you a radical? What a relief. One doesn’t like to ask, but what if I had kissed a Tory? "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

16 " Quite excessive of you,” Lex went on, ignoring him. He was enjoying this far too much. “One may be assaulted by at most a third of the redheaded girls one meets. Anything more speaks of a character flaw. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

17 " And he had missed Andrew, of course he had, but he saw now that he had been missing something else—joy, maybe. Something sweet and sharp that he felt when he saw Leontine tinkering with a clock, or when Lex ribbed him, or when—every minute he spent with Amelia, but he wouldn’t let himself think about that. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

18 " So get off your high horse, Sydney. We’re all fallen, and all we have is one another. So kindly bugger off. Carter! "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

19 " Maybe you can’t,” Lex said. “The rest of us can. Hedgehogs and French urchins and dukes don’t have jobs waiting for them in Birmingham. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)

20 " It might very well be a sound idea: Amelia had been both ashamed and extremely well-behaved. But she also had lost years of her life to that shame. "

― Cat Sebastian , A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3)