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Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3) QUOTES

Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3) QUOTES

1 " [...] she couldn't help but think that this was how Persephone would be dragged to the underworld in 1880s London: not screaming, not twisting wildly, but painfully composed while Hades wore a velvet jacket. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

2 " Now she knew why girls were not allowed to feel anger—there was a reckless hope in it, and power. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

3 " She was shiny and preoccupied with colors; he had breathed and ingested darkness, had stared at it for so long it had begun to stare back into him. Darkness was a part of him now, encrusted in his soul like coal dust in a miner's skin. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

4 " Much that I despise," he said hoarsely. "and all that I desire, meets in you. And it frustrates me beyond reason. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

5 " At first sight, they were still an unlikely match—opposites in looks, upbringing, and temperament. But on the artist's color wheel, two opposite colors were considered complementary. Their high contrast caused high impact, and they looked their brightest when placed next to each other. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

6 " Her words, they came from a place desiring to please or appease, to appear normal or silly, which were usually considered the same in a girl. It was a malaise afflicting most women in Britain, this compulsion to say one thing while thinking another, to agree to things one disliked, to laugh about jokes that were dull "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

7 " shall now forever live with the knowledge that without you in it, the world would be a strange place, and I should never be at home in it again. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

8 " it had occurred to her that she smiled more often to preempt someone else’s displeasure than to express her joy. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

9 " Charity? No. I want lasting change. Remember the trouble of raising wages to a living wage as a single entrepreneur? I want a restructuring of government expenditure. A systemic redistribution of wealth—that is what I want. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

10 " thirty percent of central public spending for infernal imperial wars. On the other hand, nothing for health or education, not a shilling. Which very nicely maintains the oversupply of poor, uneducated lads to the front lines and mining pits. There’s more dignity in bullets and rocks than in begging for alms in a rotten London ally. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

11 " We’ll never see money diverted from the imperialists,” he said. “They’d rather devour the world than feed the people of Britain. I’m looking at the revenue side and currently the most effective lever is to increase the income tax. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

12 " market forces alone are never fair. Which is why we need regulation and systemic wealth redistribution. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

13 " But perhaps every woman had known a moment when she felt as though she were drowning, and the only comfort was that there could be some beauty, some dignity, in that, too. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

14 " seems that labor, once it crosses the door into a home, is magically transformed into a priceless act of love or female duty—meanwhile, women’s hands are raw from very real chores. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

15 " There is something quite . . . monstrous about the education of upper-class women. . . . All the world is agreed that they are to be brought up as ignorant as possible of erotic matters, and that one has to imbue their souls with a profound sense of shame in such matters. . . . They are supposed to have neither eyes nor ears, nor words, nor thoughts for this. . . . And then to be hurled as by a gruesome lightning bolt, into reality and knowledge, by marriage—precisely by the man they love and esteem most! To catch love and shame in a contradiction and to be forced to experience at the same time delight, surrender, duty, pity, terror. . . . Thus a psychic knot has been tied that may have no equal! "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

16 " In the controlled, patient way a confident man could afford to wait, Lucian was waiting for her. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

17 " I was a captor to you, but you have given me my only hours of true happiness." His hands clenched by his sides then, as if to hold on to the stolen bliss, but his fingers curled over emptiness. "To me," he said, "you were the light in the dark place to which I'd bound myself. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

18 " redheaded women are from hell. Lovely was dead. Enter the witch. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

19 " Any remotely self-determined woman should claim control over the curve of her own mouth. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

20 " It seems that labor, once it crosses the door into a home, is magically transformed into a priceless act of love or female duty—meanwhile, women’s hands are raw from very real chores. "

― Evie Dunmore , Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)