Grace Gibson > Quotes

“Oh!” I replied brightly, “that is my mother. I am dancing with the richest man in Derbyshire, and she is planning our wedding.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Even Bingley, who is not the sharpest blade in the armory,”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I crossed my arms and marvelled at the man’s condescension. He had made an error with that smirk because upon seeing it, my courage rose up like a tidal flood.”
― Grace Gibson, The Winter of Our Discontent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Simply put, she hated to be helped, could not stomach appearing weak or incompetent, and loathed the common perception that women were either frail or stupid.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“In truth, she had disappointed me, but I thought I had done an excellent job concealing my sentiments.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Do you not see? I have fallen in love with you, Mr. Darcy, and things being unequal as they are, it would be kind of you to find an excuse for our not accepting your invitation.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I had spent the principal years of my adulthood catering to duty and secretly resenting my endless obligations.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Louisa Hurst was a slightly empty-headed, incurious lady, which was just as well, given her marriage to a lump of flesh who loved only food and drink.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I had gone for the third time to Longbourn, and I had spent a solid hour instilling a particle of discipline in my brainless student—Bandit, not Jane Bennet.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“We are given perhaps more than we can manage, and we stagger under the load, but sooner rather than later, we take it on and become stronger for it.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Perhaps, without my superior boots, I felt less of a superior man.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“If there were ever a mark of quality, it would be the complete acceptance of one’s place in the world—not slighted, lacking, embarrassed, nor even proud.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I regretted my inability to disguise my dislike of my new bride. She had done as much as could be expected to minimise the appearance of discord, but then, she was an accomplished liar—an actress, an adventuress.”
― Grace Gibson, The Winter of Our Discontent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“I never could look at my boots without thinking of her, and a man looks at his boots a hundred times in a day, you know.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“He has caused me to weep in public.” “Terrible. So, will you make him pay for it by marrying him?”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Before you go,” I said coldly, “perhaps you might explain to my husband why I must conduct this interview while standing.” “That was badly done of me, Mrs Darcy. I beg your pardon.”
― Grace Gibson, The Winter of Our Discontent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Mrs Darcy stood ready to be taken to the bear’s den to be mauled for sport.”
― Grace Gibson, The Winter of Our Discontent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“I had, you see, become a protégé of Mr. Bennet and learned to care only for the opinions of those I loved.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“The Elizabeth Bennet of not five months ago would have excoriated such a man with her tongue for his highhanded disdain. I would have raged and bitten at his pride with my frightful fangs.”
― Grace Gibson, The Winter of Our Discontent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Perhaps you might try not to have an answer for everything,” she said.”
― Grace Gibson, Old Boots: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I said in a far gentler tone, “There are no obstacles, my love. I am a gentleman, and you are a gentleman’s daughter. We belong to one another, and I mean to have you, even if I must pull you aside and shout at you a hundred times over.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“if you please, consider your sister Mary—who is staring at you as hopefully as a spaniel in want of a walk”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Lewis de Bourgh was a drunkard, which explained both his ability to be married to my aunt and his early escape from her on account of dropsy.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“…artifice and disguise…must constitute the crown jewels of your talents…”
― Grace Gibson, The Winter of Our Discontent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“When we were boys, we referred to Lady Catherine as Black Annis, a witch of lore who ate lambs and children and hung their skins outside her hut.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I thought Mary might willingly have our cousin because she was too pious to notice his stupidity. But given a few years, she would see that her husband was a dogmatic imbecile.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“thought of Charlotte and Jane and the dark truth of being a woman. We have no power. We have no safety to call our own unless we are independently wealthy and living in seclusion. We are kept like objects, and we must be careful—exceedingly careful—to find a man who treats his possessions well.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I do not care for country society overmuch, but I shall own to their excellence in one thing: they arrive at a ball on time. None of the fashionable hour-and-a-half late entrances for these people. They valued their entertainments too much to be cavalier.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“But how gracious of you to help my cousin Elizabeth! Such a naughty puss for running from me, but we shall have her set to rights in no time.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“You are a Darcy, love. We are not stupid. Proud and disagreeable perhaps, but never stupid.”
― Grace Gibson, Silver Buckles: A Pride & Prejudice Variation