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“And because he was too stupid to see how she spoke her love, because he was thick and could only understand something if he were beaten over the head with it, he had not heard. He had expected three little words, not one enormous sacrifice of untold generosity.”
― Julie Cooper, The Perfect Gentleman

“My father explained it to me as soon as I was old enough to understand—to divide Pemberley would be to destroy it. George, you see, was required to spend his life in service to the place. That was his sacrifice. I was required to surrender it entirely—that was mine.”
― Julie Cooper, The Perfect Gentleman

“But she was reared by unpleasant parents, and married to an unpleasant husband. I suppose the odds of becoming unpleasant herself were dreadfully high.”
― Julie Cooper, The Perfect Gentleman

“The last time we spoke, I treated you poorly. I intimated that you were not good enough to be a sister to mine.” “Thank you for reminding me,” she said, her tone dry.”
― Julie Cooper, Only Mr Darcy: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“My name is not Charles Bingley,” he said. “It could be Archibald Iremonger, and I would not care. Do not ask my sister to dance with you,” she ordered, as if she had the right to command him.”
― Julie Cooper, Only Mr Darcy: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Do not return, Mr Darcy. Do not bother with hopes, and, I promise, I shall not either. I am done with childish things. I wish you a good day. A good life.” Brushing past him, she walked away, her steps firm and unwavering.”
― Julie Cooper, Only Mr Darcy: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“In the next moment, and for the first time in many years, Elizabeth found herself wrapped tightly in her mother’s embrace. “Oh, my sweet Lizzy. My poor, sweet girl,” Mrs Bennet said, patting her back as if she were in the nursery again with a skinned knee.”
― Julie Cooper, Abandoned at the Altar: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Your hair,” he said softly, lifting one strand, stroking gently, admiring it as if a rare jewel. “I have dreamt of seeing it this way.”
― Julie Cooper, Abandoned at the Altar: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Her singing voice, she had been informed by Mrs Figg, sounded as though a herd of cattle struggled to escape a barn-fire”
― Julie Cooper, The Bachelor Mr Darcy

“Home, to Longbourn, where her mother awaited Elizabeth with an expectation that she regard the potentially ridiculous Mr Collins as a suitor. Impossible, of course. I think I am in love with Mr Darcy.”
― Julie Cooper, Abandoned at the Altar: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Fitzwilliam, one day you and Anne will be presiding together at this table, as heads of this family! Only think of it!”
― Julie Cooper, The Bachelor Mr Darcy

“Ten years was a goodly period of time, but not so much as a blink when measured against his vast life span,”
― Julie Cooper, Tempt Me: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I have a thousand entries for my book now. ’Tis your name, Mr Darcy, repeated a thousand times.”
― Julie Cooper, Irresistibly Alone

“I am entirely too trustful,” she agreed. “I had supposed Miss Bingley could tell the difference between me and her shuttlecock.”
― Julie Cooper, The Bachelor Mr Darcy

“It was a grand and glorious mansion, but to be the mistress of Haye-Park’s one hundred and thirty rooms only added to the dread in her heart.”
― Julie Cooper, Irresistibly Alone

“was very important to be firm with Fanny’s indecisiveness, or she would fret the day away.”
― Julie Cooper, The Perfect Gentleman

“He shook off the sudden misgiving, knowing first-hand a child could survive a terrible parent.”
― Julie Cooper, Tempt Me: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I have made him a special tonic. He is to have a dose twice daily, without exception. It will cleanse his corrupted intestine while strengthening his heart.”
― Julie Cooper, Mr Darcy's Abducted Bride

“my cousin was even more repellent as the Master of Longbourn than he had been as Lady Matlock’s loathsome vicar.”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“Mr Darcy, a murderer. They might just as easily have accused him of being a leech hunter or a resurrectionist, for all the sense it made.”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“he seemed to have a very kind regard for his sister, in allowing her free rein to keep dogs the size of ponies. She could think of little else to recommend him, and was unsure whether or not this one thing was to his credit.”
― Julie Cooper, The Seven Sins of Fitzwilliam Darcy

“There was no answer, could be no answer. Mr Darcy was no fantastical beast, invisible to her, and she did not live in a fairy tale. He was a real person, who did many wonderful, considerate things for her so that she could more willingly, if still not happily, marry another man. He was kind, and yet the kinder he was, the more desolate she grew. Roughly wiping away the wetness on her cheeks, she whispered to the flames, “I have a thousand entries for my book now. ’Tis your name, Mr Darcy, repeated a thousand times.”
― Julie Cooper, Irresistibly Alone

“My sustenance does not require bloodshed.” He laughed. “Tell that to the cow, pig, lamb, and chicken. They will find your logic most amusing.”
― Julie Cooper, Tempt Me: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I was not born a lady. You will never know where my revenge will come from or when it will happen. You will, one future day, simply wake up dead. Am I understood”
― Julie Cooper, The Seven Sins of Fitzwilliam Darcy

“I am eight and twenty, and in my heart—if not to the world—a girl yet.”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“My thoughts on what good a Christian burial would do for a woman who had lived an amoral life filled with hatred and destruction, I kept to myself.”
― Julie Cooper, Nameless

“Was he handsome?” Elizabeth asked. “If so, take my word for it—a sister would not have made him appear any uglier.”
― Julie Cooper, The Bachelor Mr Darcy

“And you have always been more than what you eat.”
― Julie Cooper, Tempt Me: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“My father’s note indicates that my cousin Collins is a toady chucklehead.”
― Julie Cooper, Abandoned at the Altar: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Maggie said.”
― Julie Cooper, Tempt Me: A Pride & Prejudice Variation