Marissa Doyle > Quotes

“Charles stepped forward, looking outraged. 'Him?' he cried. 'But I clobbered him! You can't marry him, Ally.”
― Marissa Doyle, Bewitching Season

“He's a boy. They don't learn sense until they're thirty. If then.”
― Marissa Doyle, Bewitching Season

“That was what the season was, after all- a marriage market for the offspring of the aristocracy.”
― Marissa Doyle

“Good-bye, Pen Leland. If we meet again, maybe in London next season, you'll pardon me if I don't pursue an acquaintance with you. It's hard to chat about the weather when one's heart is breaking—”
― Marissa Doyle, Betraying Season

“A true lady is known by her conduct under trying circumstances.”
― Marissa Doyle, Bewitching Season

“The situation was absurd. He wore riding boots with spurs. Her hair tumbled about her like a shaggy pony's. They were in the schoolroom with the furniture pushed about higgledy-piggledy. But in that instant, she would have danced a fandango with a rose in her teeth if Lochinvar had asked her to.”
― Marissa Doyle, Bewitching Season

“Born Emily Lamb, daughter of the well-known Lady Melbourne (another mistress of the Prince of Wales), brother of William Lamb, later Viscount Melbourne, Queen Victoria’s first prime minister, and sister-in-law of crazy-cakes Caro Lamb, lover of Lord Byron.”
― Marissa Doyle, Countess of Shadows: The Ladies of Almack's Omnibus No. 1