Amy D'Orazio > Quotes

“You look,” said Saye, casting a gimlet eye over him, “as if you have been ridden hard and put away wet. Are you ill?”
― Amy D'Orazio, Officious Interference: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“One-and-twenty, hm? I suppose you fancy yourself quite independent. Very well, Lizzy. Take a day to form your reply, but understand me in this. If you do not marry Sir James, you will find yourself with an independence I do not think you are prepared for.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Officious Interference: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“No.” He nodded slowly. Her hands, she noticed, had begun to twist themselves together. “You cannot love me.” “I can and I do.” “It is impossible in every respect!” “I disagree,” he said simply, and smiled.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Officious Interference: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“I daresay every man in this room has considered shooting you at some point,” Saye replied.”
― Amy D'Orazio, An Error of Fancy: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Let me be quite clear,” said Bingley. “I am not going to throw Jane over, not even if I find out she herself kissed Sir James.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Officious Interference: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“I did not elope,” Darcy replied, as icily as he could. “I had her father’s permission and blessing and was married by licence in my own parish. How is that an elopement?” “Because I did not get cake,” Saye replied blithely.”
― Amy D'Orazio, A Lady's Reputation

“I do, on occasion, like to break from my usual routine of selfish disdain for the feelings of others.”
― Amy D'Orazio, The Best Part of Love

“Let us go back to your rooms,” Darcy suggested in a manner that sounded more like an order. “I fear we need to have a very unhappy conversation.”
― Amy D'Orazio, An Error of Fancy: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Mr Darcy agreed, now with such a look of tenderness that Elizabeth hardly knew where to shift her eyes. In any case, it was surely not the time to announce that she despised him and had no intention of marrying him.”
― Amy D'Orazio, An Offer of Marriage: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Ladies, how are you?” “Fan-freaking-tastic,” Elizabeth muttered.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Affections and Wishes

“Cannot infatuation be a precursor to a more sturdy love?” She shook her head. “That would be like saying intoxication is a prelude to rational discourse.” “You liken infatuation to intoxication?”
― Amy D'Orazio, A Gentleman's Pursuit: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Look, I know you’re angry with me⁠—” “I’m not angry at you. I’m not anything, actually. I never even think about you.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Affections and Wishes

“but I knew it could not mean you forgot me, or us.” What? Elizabeth felt her heart constrict painfully. “Um, sir, I fear there has been⁠—” “If you tell me you have forgotten me, I shall die. By my own hand!”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“she would put aside whatever irascibility she once had for him and treat him as someone dear to her.”
― Amy D'Orazio, An Error of Fancy: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Pain shot through his boot as she, quite astonishingly, stamped on his foot. “My uncle,” she spat, “is twice the gentleman you can ever hope to be.”
― Amy D'Orazio, A Folly of Youth

“Sir James was afflicted with a bit of dysentery,” Saye reported. “Quite unseemly if I must say so. One can hardly make love to a woman with his breeches round his ankles and his arse fastened to the chamber pot.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Officious Interference: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“He nodded. “When did you speak to Bingley?” “He called on me at Gracechurch Street. Evidently, he did not think it would irreparably damage him to be civil to my aunt and uncle.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Let the old bird buy you a gown, Elizabeth,” said Lord Saye from where he stood flicking disdainfully through bolts of cloth. His aunt shot him a stern look which he met with a little wink followed by blowing a kiss to her. “I mean that in the kindest possible way, my dear auntie.”
― Amy D'Orazio, A Gentleman's Pursuit: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“How do you introduce solid foods?’ He said, ‘Baby, may I present to you this banana. Banana, this is the baby’.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Affections and Wishes

“Well, perhaps you will meet someone of interest there.” “In Hertfordshire? I think not!” Darcy laughed.”
― Amy D'Orazio, The Best Part of Love

“Surely there is something?” Bingley begged. “I cannot go through with it. I cannot! I am twenty-three years old, and the most optimistic outcome I can think of is an early death.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“You will recall that young curate we spoke of? Mr Peter Nobbledick?”
― Amy D'Orazio, The Spinster

“Good day, sir. I will speak to your man about packing your things as soon as I am returned to the house. And Darcy?” Bingley gave him a disdainful glare. “You are to be pitied.”
― Amy D'Orazio, A Folly of Youth

“You think my regard for you is untrue, but I do love you, more so each time I see you. My expression of it is wanting; I have not known what it is to love or how to love another. Yet, already you have taught me that love must not be selfish. It must be courageous, placing itself above all other considerations.” She”
― Amy D'Orazio, The Best Part of Love

“A sound made him start, and he turned. Thoughts of Bingley immediately left his mind as he perceived a wholly unwelcome sight: Miss Elizabeth Bennet had appeared, seemingly from nowhere.”
― Amy D'Orazio, A Folly of Youth

“Oh, people get lost at Vauxhall all the time,” he said dismissively. “She is likely exchanging spit with Rawlings while Jenkinson plays dead beside them.”
― Amy D'Orazio, A Gentleman's Pursuit: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Exactly,” said Mr Bennet. “Women sell themselves to men. In this case, it was believed you were selling your virtue.”
― Amy D'Orazio, A Folly of Youth

“She tossed her hair back and set her glass down on one of the nearby trays. “Who knows, maybe once I kiss you, you’ll turn into a prince.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Affections and Wishes

“Shoot the Earl of Tooleywag down there,” Saye suggested. “Perhaps once she knew you were unable to be a proper husband, the rest would follow naturally.”
― Amy D'Orazio, Done for the Best: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“She was once not the nervous sort, but had lately been forced to marry a man who treated her worse than the boot scraper he used to remove the horse manure from his shoes.”
― Amy D'Orazio, An Offer of Marriage: A Pride and Prejudice Variation