Tasha Alexander > Quotes

“It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz

“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.”
― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive

“Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz

“You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz

“Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.”
― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive

“An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.”
― Tasha Alexander, Tears of Pearl

“I shall be forever grateful to you for breaking whatever unfortunate object you did in order to rescue me.”

“Something had to be done, she said, “and it was a very ugly vase.”
― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive

“As we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoughly analyzed...”
― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive

“You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz

“That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz

“The dead are notoriously unreliable when it comes to standards of behavior,” I said. “Particularly murder victims. They have no sense of decorum at all.”
― Tasha Alexander, Behind the Shattered Glass

“I think that as we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoroughly analyzed.”
― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive

“In France, we leave a single space before and after most punctuation marks. In England, there are generally no spaces before punctuation, and one inserts a double space between sentences.”
― Tasha Alexander, The Counterfeit Heiress

“Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?”
― Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know

“Perhaps it was a lost opportunity. There’s always a special thrill to the forbidden, or so they say.”
― Tasha Alexander, In the Shadow of Vesuvius

“Could you tell me again what was written on the apple?” “Tê kallistê. Kallista in Greek means ‘most beautiful.’” And thus I learned that Philip had considered me beautiful.”
― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive

“Change did not always lead to improvements, sometimes only to change.”
― Tasha Alexander, Behind the Shattered Glass

“All thinking people are in constant need of more books.”
― Tasha Alexander, In the Shadow of Vesuvius

“If you are once sure what you do want, you find that everything else goes down before it like grass under a roller—(all other interests, your own and other people’s. I had”
― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive

“As anyone who has struggled with insomnia knows, trying to force sleep is at best a hopeless business. Slumber is unimpressed by suitors.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Terrible Beauty

“start her gradual return to society. Black gowns gave way to grey, mauve, and lavender, and could now be made from silk instead of crape or bombazine. To alert the members of her circle that she was ready to face society, a widow would leave calling cards at the houses of her acquaintances. She would begin to accept more invitations, always being careful only to attend events that were not too joyful and to behave in ways respectful of the memory of her husband”
― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive

“She wanders the country in search of a better mother, one who would look after her properly”
― Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know

“heartless wife who, instead of being grieved at the death of her husband, is rejoiced at it, should be taught that society will not respect her unless she pays to the memory of the man whose name she bears that “homage which vice pays to virtue,” a commendable respect to the usages of society in the matter of mourning and of retirement from the world.”
― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive

“If he could get a commission to work on the murals in one of the Ringstrasse buildings, he would be in a much better position.” “He’ll never allow us to arrange such a thing, and I respect him immeasurably for it.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz

“Holinshed again. The one that inspired Shakespeare’s famous speech.”
― Tasha Alexander, Uneasy Lies the Crown

“think of the adventures on which she might embark.”
― Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know

“central characters in the tale, lending it a sense of veracity. Even better if one could give a first-hand account of a ghostly apparition. But one must not discount the multitude of stories penned by writers eager to provide readers with suitably eerie fare for the holiday. Along with Dickens, M. R. James, provost of King’s College, Cambridge, became famous for his stories, which he shared with students and eventually published (Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was his first collection). Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Wilkie Collins”
― Tasha Alexander, That Silent Night

“You don’t approve of Braddon?” I asked, readying myself to give him a stern lecture on the merits of her work. Not everything, after all, must be an exercise in the intellectual. One does require entertainment on occasion.”
― Tasha Alexander, Uneasy Lies the Crown

“Name it after that blind monk—what was his name?” “Dom Pérignon, who said drinking champagne is like tasting the stars.”
― Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know

“is common knowledge that many of the Christmas traditions we observe today come from the Victorians. Dickens solidified and immortalized the image of a perfect family Christmas—much of which the English had adopted from the Germans via Prince Albert”
― Tasha Alexander, That Silent Night