Kristina Cook > Quotes

“But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly.”
― Kristina Cook, Unlaced

“Lucy nodded. It wasn’t as if she had any choice. Jane’s parents had graciously offered to sponsor her, and her father had accepted Lord and Lady Rosemoor’s invitation on her behalf. There’d been no room for arguments; even tears hadn’t swayed Papa’s firm resolve to send her away. He’d accused her of spending far too much time with Mr. Wilton, reminding her that she could never study at the Veterinary College as he was. She was a female, he’d repeated, and females her age read novels, painted landscapes…found suitable husbands.”
― Kristina Cook, Unlaced

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― Kristina Cook, Unlaced

“It isn't what characteristics, what traits you've inherited from your parents that make you who you are. It's the choices you make, Henry, that decide what kind of person you become.”
― Kristina Cook, Unlaced

“Riding sidesaddle is not truly riding. It’s ridiculous, is what it is. As if I couldn’t properly sit a horse.”
― Kristina Cook, Unlaced

“Riding sidesaddle is not truly riding. It’s ridiculous, is what it is.”
― Kristina Cook, Unlaced

“If I should be, where I no more can hearThy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleamsOf past existence, wilt thou then forgetThat on the banks of this delightful streamWe stood together; And that I, so longA worshipper of Nature, hither came,Unwearied in that service: rather sayWith warmer love, oh! with far deeper zealOf holier love. Now wilt thou then forget,That after many wanderings, many yearsOf absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs,And this green pastoral landscape, were to meMore dear, both for themselves, and for thy sake.”
― Kristina Cook, To Love a Scoundrel

“Veterinary arts?” Jane asked with a gasp. “Lucy, you must be mad.” “I assure you I’ve all my wits about me,” Lucy Abbington answered with a frown. No, she wasn’t mad, but her life was about to change—dramatically. She’d long since recognized this as the truth, ever since her father had packed her”
― Kristina Cook, Unlaced