Elizabeth Adams > Quotes

“Does he truly call you an officious oaf?” “He used rather more colorful language, but that was the general idea.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“Women were strange creatures; it was best not to try to understand them.”
― Elizabeth Adams, On Equal Ground: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary

“Her eyes widened. “You truly love me, don’t you?” She flushed a deep red as soon as the words had left her mouth.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“He had never thought he would enjoy courting. It seemed a terrible waste of time and energy. If a man knew he wanted to marry a woman, why not simply ask her and be done with it?”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“Darcy huffed. “I wonder you travel with me at all.” “You are so spoiled you would throw a fit if I did not.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“Strumpet!” “I beg your pardon!” retorted Elizabeth at the same time Darcy stood and said, “Aunt, you forget yourself.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“Because men so often stare at that which they dislike,” said Charlotte with a look of smug disbelief.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“But she is not in love with me yet, and my family treating her like a milkmaid who wandered into the house will hardly encourage her.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“It is a wonder so many ladies survive into adulthood, what with their propensity to fall into fountains. Why, they should cordon off all public fountains immediately! The danger is too great! It will be hard to enforce on private estates of course, but I’m certain if we persevere, we can keep the young ladies of Britain safe from the menace of fountains.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“So I should gather that you are amenable to the honest intentions of an honorable man?” “If you are the man,” she said softly, eyes on her lap.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“What the devil?!” cried Darcy. “I told you! She is not reasonable!” “She is not sane!” “That is a definite possibility.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“What? I am an old married lady now. I may speak as I find.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“He smiled more broadly than she had ever seen him do. “My very heart.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“Since Robert’s death, you mean. You may say it, Jane. He will not be any more dead if you do.”
― Elizabeth Adams, On Equal Ground: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary

“What? I wanted her to know I had thought of the obstacles and was prepared to face them, for her.” Fitzwilliam sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. “Darcy, can you truly be this stupid?”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“She couldn’t imagine what she would have been like without his influence—what her family would be like! Her mother would have put them all out at fifteen as she had planned, and in all likelihood, they would have been five single ladies out, for years on end, with no suitors among them. Mary would be pedantic, Jane withdrawn, and Lydia positively wild.”
― Elizabeth Adams, On Equal Ground: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary

“Difficult?” “Of course.” “Officious?” “Quite often.” “Demanding?” “All the time.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“It had always been Mr. Darcy’s misfortune that when he most wished to be understood, he gave nearly the opposite impression of the one he intended.”
― Elizabeth Adams, On Equal Ground: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary

“Intelligent women do not appreciate being ordered about like children,” said the earl.”
― Elizabeth Adams, On Equal Ground: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary

“what”
― Elizabeth Adams, A Curative Touch

“I was no longer the logical man I had been. There was a darkness in me that had not been there before.”
― Elizabeth Adams, Cursed

“I hope you know I will stand your friend, Miss Bennet. And should you ever need it, I shall stand as your brother.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“It must be convenient to have men to ride all over the country for you at a moment’s notice.” “It is remarkably so.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“She smiled at herself and said, “Not badly done, Mrs. Collins. Not bad at all.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“that she had expected Mr. Darcy to act as Mr. Bennet had, without accounting for how very different the two men were.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“It must”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“And can a person not grow in attractiveness once one knows them better?”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“A day will come when his opinion will be the most important to you—above my own, even above Father’s. That is when you should accept him, Lizzy. But not before.”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated

“said Miss Bingley in a voice that made Elizabeth want to poke her with a hat pin.”
― Elizabeth Adams, On Equal Ground: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary

“How will the lady ever fall in love with you if you do not let her know you!”
― Elizabeth Adams, How to Fall in Love with a Man You Thought You Hated