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The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3) QUOTES

The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3) QUOTES

1 " BEATRICE: Do you truly not know who he was? Mr. Dorian Gray, the lover of Mr. Oscar Wilde, who was sent to Reading Gaol for—well, for holding opinions that society does not approve of! For believing in beauty, and art, and love. What guilt and remorse he must feel, for causing the downfall of the greatest playwright of the age! It was Mr. Gray’s dissolute parties, the antics of his hedonistic friends, that exposed Mr. Wilde to scandal and opprobrium. No wonder he has fallen prey to the narcotic.

MARY: Or he could just like opium. He didn’t seem particularly remorseful, Bea.

JUSTINE: Mr. Gray is not what society deems him to be. He has been greatly misunderstood. He assures me that he had no intention of harming Mr. Wilde.

MARY: He would say that.

CATHERINE: Can we not discuss the Wilde scandal in the middle of my book? You’re going to get it banned in Boston, and such other puritanical places. "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

2 " There is modesty, and there is propriety. The former is a natural instinct, given to us when Adam and Eve left the garden and realized their nakedness. The latter is merely a social construct. Although as human beings we wish to consort with our fellows, and therefore yield to their judgments in matters of dress and behavior, surely we may break the rules of propriety when they interfere with the important matters of our lives, so long as modesty is not thereby wounded. "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

3 " MARY: My wrath! When do I ever get wrathful?

CATHERINE: It’s your particular kind of wrath. You don’t shout—you just get precise and icy.

MARY: That’s not wrath. I don’t think that counts as wrath.

DIANA: It’s Mary wrath. Your particular kind, as Cat said. Not that I’m scared of it, mind you. But it’s worse than being shouted at.

MARY: I have no idea what either of you are talking about. Alice, am I ever wrathful?

ALICE: Well, yes, actually. If you don’t mind my saying so, miss. When you learned what the Order of the Golden Dawn had done to me and Mr. Holmes—

CATHERINE: Oh no, you don’t! We have chapters to go before you can talk about that. Really, not one of you has any idea of narrative timing. "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

4 " MARY: Are our readers going to know what the Athena Club is?

CATHERINE: They will if they read the first two books! Which they should, and I hope if they are reading this volume and have not read the previous ones, they will go right out and purchase them. Two shillings each, a bargain at the price! "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

5 " BEATRICE: They are the clothing of the New Woman. They are meant not to be feminine, but practical.

CATHERINE: On women they look like men’s clothing, on men they look like women’s clothing. That’s where the New Woman meets the Dandy.

BEATRICE: Why is it necessary to categorize people in that fashion? Why can we not all wear whatever we wish, whatever is useful and aesthetically pleasing? I believe that someday we shall all wear garments that are light and of a pleasing texture, easy to put on and take off. At the same time, they will express the aspirations of the spirit. They will be like the garments of the Greeks, both graceful and functional. Why can we not dress in such a fashion now?

MRS. POOLE: Because this is England, and you would all catch your deaths of cold. "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

6 " Friendship and chocolate cake—they do not heal all ills, but they certainly help. "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

7 " We don’t get into mischief,” said Mary indignantly. “It sort of happens to us, or around us, or in our general vicinity. "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

8 " However you feel about maids' uniforms, we don't have time to overthrow the social order today. "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

9 " She would sip an elderflower tisane and he would drink a dark, aromatic espresso. "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

10 " She had wandered the streets of Vienna and Budapest. No wonder she felt different. Perhaps travel did that to you. Mary had come home, but she was not the same Mary who had left—not quite. "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

11 " As far as Catherine was concerned, autumn in England proved that if God did exist, He was an actively malevolent deity. "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

12 " Rosy-fingered dawn indeed! This dawn was wearing gray gloves. "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)

13 " You are all vinegar, my dear Helen. I believe in the judicious application of honey. "

― Theodora Goss , The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3)