Charlotte E. English > Quotes

“mushroom ring,”
― Charlotte E. English, Draykon

“Unicorns?’ said Jay, incredulous. ‘You just whistled a quartet of winged unicorns out of your bra?’ ‘Never underestimate the benefits of a good bra,’ I told him with dignity. ‘As many a lingerie company will tell you.’ Jay, for once, had nothing to say.”
― Charlotte E. English, The Road to Farringale

“Do you want children?’ ‘What?’ He stared at her, nonplussed. ‘Children,’ she persevered. ‘Small, screaming human beings that stink and break everything you own-”
― Charlotte E. English, Draykon

“I could see him dodging my question, but how could I care when instead of an explanation he offered me a library?”
― Charlotte E. English, The Road to Farringale

“It did not suit the town to consider that the betrothal might be a desire of the heart, for two such souls, at a respectably sedate time of life, could have no business falling in love. Being both in comfortable circumstances, however, there was much sense in uniting their separate holdings. This must be reason enough.”
― Charlotte E. English, Faerie Fruit

“rupture;”
― Charlotte E. English, The Malykant Mysteries: Books 1 - 4

“You can keep your bitter beer and you can keep your ale, I don’t want them red or brown, I do not want them pale! Naught will do to quench my thirst but a draught drunk crisp and cold, Not brown in hue, not green or blue, but finest amber-gold! Cider-bright I’ll drink all night, I’ll drink enough for three, It’s sweet, it’s tart, it warms the heart, and it comes from old Berrie!”
― Charlotte E. English, Faerie Fruit

“voice.”
― Charlotte E. English, Bessie Bell and the Goblin King

“And then, since they really weren’t such good friends as all that, Theo dashed off into the glowering night alone, and Lord Ashford put himself back to bed.”
― Charlotte E. English, Wyrde and Widdershins