The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters #3) QUOTES

1 " I felt the protective dam I'd built around my heart began to crumble. I turned my eyes back to him and felt the love finally start to trickle out through the fissures. And hoped that one day it would become a torrent. "

― Lucinda Riley , The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters #3)

3 " As you well know, people choose to became a victim or a hero. "

― Lucinda Riley , The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters #3)

5 " that every living thing needed to be nurtured carefully from the start of its life. And if it was, it would eventually grow strong and last for years to come. "

― Lucinda Riley , The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters #3)

7 " y siempre con esas monsergas de la iglesia que me inculcó durante toda la infancia. Yo no tenía ni la más remota idea de cómo evitar un embarazo. Créeme, la versión católica no funciona. Tú fuiste el resultado inevitable de ello. —¿Habrías abortado si hubieras podido? —No… lo sé. Estoy intentando ser lo más honesta posible, Star. El caso es que después de ese verano entré en Cambridge y en noviembre al fin me di cuenta de que algo no iba bien. Pregunté a una amiga y me compró un test de embarazo. Un médico me confirmó que ya estaba de más de cuatro meses. "

― Lucinda Riley , The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters #3)

9 " we’re all glad that female emancipation has moved on, and let me tell you, in the 1980s we girls really were the pioneers, the first generation of educated women to put a foot – or should I say a stiletto – firmly in the male-dominated workplace. But I think that what we did simply offered choice to the women who followed us. In other words, enabled them to be who they wanted to be. "

― Lucinda Riley , The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters #3)

11 " can stay the same forever – and expecting it to is, of course, the biggest single mistake we human beings make. "

― Lucinda Riley , The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters #3)

13 " A room without books is like a body without a soul,’ I quoted to myself. "

― Lucinda Riley , The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters #3)