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“How could she protect herself from her own pain? As she’d learned long ago, she couldn’t. She could only move through it and let her own vulnerability make her more powerful...in the way bones grew back stronger after broken.”
― Courtney Sharp, A Scandal for Christmas

“I’ve been hiding,” the man intoned gravely. “Lady Bly is in full force this year—swearing like a sailor and insisting on cutting down trees herself. She’s a mad woman. Who thinks she’s a lumberjack.” “She’s an American,” Sebastian replied dryly.”
― Courtney Sharp, A Scandal for Christmas

“You forgive me, then?” “Of course, I do. I wanted to forgive you this morning, but you’d already left without groveling first.”
― Courtney Sharp, A Scandal for Christmas

“Shall I only teach them to curtsy the right way, how one may address a gentleman in passing, how to paint and embroider what others tell them is appropriate? Shall they only be good for one thing—decoration? Is that what you would have of Emma—whose dreams are bigger than the skies—or Julia—who is passionate and brave and bold? Shall they watercolor, my lord?”
― Courtney Sharp, A Scandal for Christmas

“Trewly, If you do not come home, I will tour the continent and pick the most unsuitable man to be your stepfather. He will be a painter and distribute portraits of me in the altogether to all of your friends. If you are not home by the 20th of December, I will consider this your assent to my plan.”
― Courtney Sharp, A Scandal for Christmas

“Trewly, If you do not come home, I will tour the continent and pick the most unsuitable man to be your stepfather. He will be a painter and distribute portraits of me in the altogether to all of your friends. If you are not home by the 20th of December, I will consider this your assent to my plan. No, this is not a joke. Sincerely, Dowager Viscountess Trewly”
― Courtney Sharp, A Scandal for Christmas