Alexandra Vasti > Quotes

“You bring the morning with you. You’re the light, sweetheart. When you walk into a room, I can’t see the shadows. There is nothing in this world that could persuade me to send you away if I thought you wanted me half as much as I want you.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Ne'er Duke Well

“You are the summer and the winter, the spring and the fall. When you change, I want to change alongside you. I want to discover you anew every morning. I want to forget what dawn looks like except in your eyes.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“This exchange, too, was both familiar and unfamiliar. her proclamation, his rebuttal- a demand issued and returned. She challenged him, and he challenged her right back.”
― Alexandra Vasti, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects

“The baby's stirring. If I can settle him and let you rest a moment, your head upon my shoulder, I'll count my life worthwhile.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“Vane, I need you. This sentiment fills me with terror.”
― Alexandra Vasti, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects

“Villains. Larceny. His imminent evisceration by his own printings scissors.”
― Alexandra Vasti, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects

“If her years as one of the Halifax Hellions had taught Matilda anything, it was that gossip only had power over you if you permitted it to do so, and that the perception of others only mattered if you truly cared about what those people thought.”
― Alexandra Vasti, In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint

“When she came back, she’d thrown open”
― Alexandra Vasti, Ne'er Duke Well

“She had certainly eroded his willpower. Wrecked his composure. Caused significant and irreversible damage to his heart.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“You once told me that your private rule was to never have any green Belvoir’s books on your person,” he said. His eyes were warm and intent on hers. “And now—well. I wanted you to have something to remind you that you’ve nothing to hide. To make you recollect how proud you should be every time you look at it.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Ne'er Duke Well

“It was, however, the first time Lydia had vomited in front of a man whom she had recently offered her hand in marriage.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“She could not imagine what that must feel like. She felt as though her entire life had been spent trying to force herself into the shape that would be most pleasing to others. And failing.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“Sweetheart,” he said. “Loving you is not a mistake.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Ne'er Duke Well

“What hope could there be for change without universal suffrage? Why would anything ever improve in the British Empire if a handful of terrible men controlled its fate and answered to no one?”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“That was how she loved, she supposed—recklessly, with abandon. It was why she was so cautious about giving her heart away: because she could not do it by half-measures.”
― Alexandra Vasti, In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint

“She wanted children with eyes the color of Scotland.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“I want to listen to you talk until I fall asleep, and then I want to dream about your voice.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“Because some things were worth the panic and the potential for humiliation. Some things mattered more than her own personal dread.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“You are the summer and the winter, the spring and the fall. When you change, I want to change alongside you.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“Your smile is my light. Your laugh is my shelter. If you'll - if you'll allow it, Lydia Hope-Wallace, I will spend the rest of my life trying to be worthy of you.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“You have this way of looking,” she said softly, “as though you cannot see enough of me.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Ne'er Duke Well

“And there’s nothing I wouldn’t do to keep you safe.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Ne'er Duke Well

“men preferred Marianne Dashwood to Elizabeth Bennet, as unaccountable as it seemed.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Ne'er Duke Well

“Don’t be modest. You only wanted to revolutionize female education. Makes blackmail look almost decorous.”
― Alexandra Vasti

“She had not anticipated the zebra.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“She knew not how to curb the fierce and maddening fever that raged within.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Ladies in Hating

“You bring the morning with you. You’re the light, sweetheart. When you walk into a room, I can’t see the shadows. There is nothing in this world that could persuade me to send you away if”
― Alexandra Vasti, Ne'er Duke Well

“How could she expect to make a difference if she let herself be ruled by her fears?”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush

“All politics are about people’s lives. Our experiences are what drive our politics—our experiences and our sympathy for the lives of others.”
― Alexandra Vasti, Earl Crush