The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1) QUOTES

2 " Here's the thing about New York, the thing I love most: there is no such substance as silence. If you ever stop talking, and he stops talking, the city takes over for you. A siren forms a distant parabola of sound. A door slams. The old couple in 4A argues over who will answer the telephone. The young lovers in 2C reach an animalistic climax. A million other lives play out on your doorstep, and not one of them gives a damn about your little problems. Life goes on and on and on. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

4 " What makes you Vivian.' I liked the way he said my name, all throaty on the V's, all stretched to its rightful three syllables. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

6 " All men are brutes. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

8 " You know something? The oddest picture came into my mind just then. I saw Dadums in the chair in the hospital waiting room, cradling my mother’s sleeping head on his lap, raising his finger to his lips so no one would disturb her. And. I heard Violet’s voice in my ears, as kind and clean as water: He loved me as much as it was possible for him to love another person. I thought, out of the blue, maybe this isn’t so hard after all. Maybe "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

10 " You're greedy, her mother had said to her quietly, that last night in New York, as she had packed her things. Greedy and selfish. It's not the knowledge you want, you can have that from your journals. you want to be in the newspapers, you want to be Marie Curie, you wat to think you're different from all of us. That all other women are silly and complacent and conventional, except you, brilliant you. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

12 " Listen to me, Violet. I want more than this. I want to lie next to you at night and worship you. I want to watch you by day and see what you're capable of, you astonishing woman, you bloody beautiful thing. I want to count every scintillation of you. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

14 " You have no idea, do you? No idea what it's like to have no money, no way on God's earth to beg, borrow, or steal it. No idea what it's like to have no choice. No idea what it's like to sit there and stare at the bare walls and realize you've got to do something, and whatever you do, it's the wrong thing. You could take some money, propose to a girl, and break her heart later, and in so doing lose the love of the single most breathtaking woman you've ever met, the love of your lonely godforsaken life. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

16 " ...she wears a summer nightgown, white cotton trimmed with a token bit of lace at the neck and sleeves. She dislikes the itchiness of the lace against her skin, the sense of delicate entrapment. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

18 " His scorn was so huge, Violet could have reached out and grabbed a fistful of it. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)

20 " but here in this November instant those tiny flakes swirled with the unspeakable purity of a divine gift. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Schuyler Sisters #1)