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A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1) QUOTES

A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1) QUOTES

1 " Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

2 " She had very much looked forward to a word in private with him. But she forgot, as she usually did, the silence that always came between them in these latter years, whenever they found themselves alone.

The queer sensation in her chest, however, was all too familiar, that mix of pleasure and pain, never one without the other.

She could have done without those feelings. She would have happily gone her entire life never experiencing the pangs of longing and the futility of regret. He made her human—or as human as she was capable of being. And being human was possibly her least favorite aspect of life. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

3 " Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

4 " That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman's existence. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

5 " With your penchant for diminishing a man to little more than a shell of his former manhood, it never ceases to amaze me that you managed to receive all the proposals you did.”
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“It’s my décolletage—when gentlemen stare at my bosom, they don’t hear a word I say. I strongly believe that if trees sprouted breasts tomorrow, they would soon be wearing wedding rings. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

6 " Remind yourself that you're far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don't yet understand your own value and you've never been taught to demand your full worth. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

7 " I do not like the idea of bartering the use of my reproductive system for a man's support... "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

8 " If God doesn't want people to lie, he shouldn't have given the best liars such earnest and innocent faces. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

9 " That’s what Papa counting on, no doubt. But romantic love is . . .I don’t wish to say that romantic love itself is a fraud—I’m sure the feelings it inspires are genuine enough, however temporary. But the way it’s held up as this pristine, everlasting joy every woman ought to strive for—when in fact love is more like beef brought over from Argentina on refrigerated ships: It might stay fresh for a while under carefully controlled conditions, but sooner or later it’s qualities will begin to degrade. Love is by and large a perishable good and it is lamentable that young people are asked to make irrevocable, till-death-do-we-part decisions in the midst of a short-lived euphoria. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

10 " when gentlemen stare at my bosom, they don’t hear a word I say. I strongly believe that if trees sprouted breasts tomorrow, they would soon be wearing wedding rings. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

11 " The public considers all women on stage to be of questionable morals, if not outright whores. But the serious Shakespearean actresses console themselves that at least they aren’t involved in the vulgarity of musical theater. And those of us in musical theater congratulate ourselves on not being involved in the pornographic nonsense that is the burlesque. I don’t know to whom the burlesque performers compare themselves, but I’m sure they feel superior to someone. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

12 " I often question your actions, but rarely your reasoning. And this isn't one of those rare instances. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

13 " Though I suppose it's better to marry an idiot than someone who thinks you're an idiot. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

14 " ...when an old man dies, no matter how well loved he is, it is easier to accept: death has been in the wings for a while. But when a young man perishes unexpectedly, his devoted wife, who has had every expectation of many more happy years together, suddenly finds herself profoundly alone-- and descends into a powerful grief that lasts for years upon years. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

15 " Mrs. Watson feeds me ’round the clock and I haven’t turned anything down. But at the rate I’m going, within the week I’ll reach Maximum Tolerable Chins. Then I’ll be obliged to give up this reckless dining. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

16 " Livia’s heart thudded. She was good at something? "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

17 " It really is too bad that sometimes inconvenient facts surface to thumb their noses at remarkably elegant hypotheses. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

18 " Some people never meet the right person in life. They, on the other hand, met when they were too young to realize what they had found in each other. And when they did at last see the light, it was too late. "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

19 " Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)

20 " Mum—my real mum, not Mrs. Cornish—always told me that men hate it when women bring up their menses. I thought it was ridiculous. They love to moan about their own aches and pains, why should they begrudge us a little complaining about ours? "

― Sherry Thomas , A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock, #1)