Abigail Reynolds > Quotes

“I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.”
― Abigail Reynolds, Pemberley by the Sea

“Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I can’t have him.’ But that would only lead to questions she couldn’t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside, hoping someday she would no longer feel as if half of her were missing.”
― Abigail Reynolds, The Man Who Loved Pride & Prejudice

“Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?”
― Abigail Reynolds, The Last Man in the World

“I don't want your duty kisses. They taste bitter”
― Abigail Reynolds, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, The Last Man in the World: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“It seems we are all too vulnerable to having our heart lead us astray from what is right”
― Abigail Reynolds, Impulse and Initiative

“When a gentleman spends quite some time telling me in detail about his father's courtship of his mother, I have to assume there is some moral for me in the tale. Since in this case that courtship consisted primarily of his father insisting repeatedly they were to marry and his mother refusing him almost as often, I take the moral to be that there is very little point in refusing, since it would only lead to the question being repeated until I agreed to it out of sheer exhaustion.”
― Abigail Reynolds, The Darcys of Derbyshire: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“Thou hast ravished my heart.”
― Abigail Reynolds, By Force of Instinct

“I would like to point out that while I have considerately remained composed during our discourse, I do have streneous objections to you taking risks such as walking into burning buildings”
― Abigail Reynolds, Impulse and Initiative

“The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the measure of a country isn't in how its richest citizens fare, but in how its poorest citizens live.”
― Abigail Reynolds, The Man Who Loved Pride & Prejudice

“Hah!” The Colonel laughed. “And did Georgie”
― Abigail Reynolds, The Darcy Brothers: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Elizabeth held up her garden shears. “Then let us cut greenery and wish our evil men into a cesspool!”
― Abigail Reynolds, Under the Netherfield Mistletoe: A Pride & Prejudice Variation Novella

“But I am supposed to travel to the Lakes with my aunt and uncle in June!"
Lady Matlock beamed. "All the better! They can collect you at Matlock Park. It is just off the North Road, and we would be delighted if they would break their journey with us."
This was beginning to feel like a kidnapping.”
― Abigail Reynolds, Mr. Darcy's Journey: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I am not surprised. Lizzy, you have grown up without brothers, so you are perhaps unaware that, although we may manage to force a veneer of civility on young boys, they are in truth young savages, and I can attest to that as a former young boy myself." He smiled at her. "Then we send those young savages away to school with other young savages, and we pretend that what occurs at those schools is something other that uncontrolled savagery. Unfortunately, it is precisely that.”
― Abigail Reynolds, Mr. Darcy's Refuge: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“confines of the alley and could pace to his heart’s content. “You must leave here, Bingley. I will take responsibility for Jane’s circumstances. I have already taken steps to increase her comfort and that of her family. Your presence can do nothing but endanger her. I hope no one here has recognized you.” “I—” Bingley cleared his throat. “Mrs. Long greeted me when I arrived.” He turned a beseeching look on Darcy, as if asking for forgiveness. Darcy swore under his breath. “So it will be all over Meryton by tomorrow.” Tomorrow, when he wanted to think of nothing but his wedding. Perhaps that was the solution. “We will have to minimize the damage. We can tell people you are here to stand up with me tomorrow. You will have to spend the night here.” “Will Jane be at the wedding?” “Naturally, but I expect you to keep your distance. You owe her that much.” “I would do anything for her.” “Then do not jeopardize her reputation any further!” Bingley nodded slowly. “You have my word.”
― Abigail Reynolds, Mr. Darcy's Obsession

“Do you know why we bring greenery into our houses at Christmastime? The tradition is far older than Christianity. It is to remind us that even in the darkest, coldest time of the year, there is still green. Spring will come someday, no matter how impossible that might seem when the plants are brown and dead. Even if it feels like your heart will never heal.” She took a deep breath. “Do not let any man take that away from you. There is a bit of greenery even in the deepest winter.”
― Abigail Reynolds, Under the Netherfield Mistletoe: A Pride & Prejudice Variation Novella

“pantorrillas”
― Abigail Reynolds, El Precio del Orgullo: Una Variación de Orgullo y Prejuicio

“oleada de ternura por él, sosteniéndolo cerca”
― Abigail Reynolds, La Carta del Sr. Darcy

“Nothing like that,” she said snappishly. Why did every man have to assume she had been unchaste?”
― Abigail Reynolds, A Matter of Honor: A Pride & Prejudice Variation