Lin Mei Wei > Quotes

“Darcy was suddenly and absurdly put in the position of arranging his own wedding to a woman who did not like him, who was unsuitable in every possible way, and whom he had, unwittingly, forced into this position.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Betrothed to Mr Darcy

“There was something pleasing in being able to pass one’s troubles on to someone who held the appearance of strength, capability and knowledge as Mr Darcy did.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Betrothed to Mr Darcy

“Affection!” his aunt said, horrified, as if he had just asked not for a loving wife but an orgy involving all the members of parliament, a small contingent of the French army and a blind donkey.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings

“teeth jittering”
― Lin Mei Wei, Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings

“I was under the protection of Mr Collins,” she corrected him. He rolled his eyes. “That is like saying you were under the protection of the house broom.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings

“that all that time she had wished him in Jericho.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Betrothed to Mr Darcy

“but the sooner you learn that many if not most are quite rotten inside, the better it will be for”
― Lin Mei Wei, Betrothed to Mr Darcy

“Mrs Darcy. Mrs Something Darcy. She did not even know his full name!”
― Lin Mei Wei, Betrothed to Mr Darcy

“You are to be condoled for having such a difficult charge upon you,” Darcy said, feeling suddenly irritated. “If you were to resign yourself to not meddling in my affairs, it would be my just deserts.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings

“The world seemed very small just then. Time had contracted to this night, space had contracted to this room, in which she would never know happiness again.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings

“When I acquire an interest in other people’s opinions, I shall know just what to expect,”
― Lin Mei Wei, Betrothed to Mr Darcy

“Making strained conversation with a spurned lover must be, Elizabeth thought, one of the chief leisure activities available to one in the underworld”
― Lin Mei Wei, Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings

“He had sworn that his father’s fate would not be his own, and yet here he was.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Betrothed to Mr Darcy

“Elizabeth wondered what the inhabitants of Hunsford must feel at being so abandoned by both her ladyship and their vicar at their time of need. Gratitude for small mercies, probably.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings

“Mr Darcy was passionately in love with this girl, and she a mere Nobody, from Nobody-Knew-Where, the daughter of Nobody-Knew-Who.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Betrothed to Mr Darcy

“The large fireplace with the ancient tapestry hanging over it was, as usual, a yawning mouth through which cold winds could sweep into the house.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings

“Men of your kidney”
― Lin Mei Wei, Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings

“spoil it by guessing it at once.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings

“It was evident from Mr Darcy’s bearing and manners that he was as pleased to have to attend this dinner as he would be attending his own execution.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Betrothed to Mr Darcy

“Mentally, she raged against the good weather and Mr Collins, his parsonage, the wretches who invented letter writing, and every person in the world who ever did business with Mr Caruthers, giving him, therefore, the fortune to be eligible to bid for Jane’s hand.”
― Lin Mei Wei, The Unreformed Mr Darcy

“Elizabeth concluded that it was not that he had despised Hertfordshire society for being full of unsophisticated rustics, but that he clearly despised all of society.”
― Lin Mei Wei, Betrothed to Mr Darcy

“Must I explain men? I never understood them. They never act as I think is sound, and they always think they are the soundest creatures in the world!”
― Lin Mei Wei, The Unreformed Mr Darcy

“hand.”
― Lin Mei Wei, The Unreformed Mr Darcy