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

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

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

“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

“And what is Reason to Love? Light up, quick!—And where is thy old study of philosophy?—Away with the long toil of wisdom; this one thing only I know, that Love took captive even the mind of Zeus.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Poisoned Season

“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

“Remember your Austen: ‘Let us hope for better things. Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Poisoned Season

“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

“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

“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. —Aristotle”
― Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know

“Not at all,” I said. “I think she’d be elegant beyond measure, and deceive you completely in the ballroom.” “And would make a most excellent villain. Perhaps I should write about her.” Monsieur Leblanc tilted his head and looked into the distance, as if deep in thought. “Only”
― Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know

“last the secret is out, as it always must come in the end, The delicious story is ripe to tell to the intimate friend; Over the teacups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there’s never smoke without fire.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Poisoned Season

“douillons.”
― Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know

“You know, Winifred, you begin to make me wonder if all women should have the right to vote.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Crimson Warning

“lady have that matters more than her reputation?” “I can think of lots of things,” I said, but wasn’t allowed to continue.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Crimson Warning

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