Lefki Karantoni > Quotes

“But looking at Jane, and looking at you, I find I am simply tired of being angry. It is exhausting work, hating you, Mr Darcy.”
― Lefki Karantoni, Mr Darcy's New Year's Resolution: A Light-Hearted Festive Regency Romance of Pride and Prejudice

“Lizzy," Charlotte hissed as Elizabeth rejoined them. "Please tell me you did not just verbally eviscerate the richest man in the room.”
― Lefki Karantoni, A Very Tolerable Christmas: A Pride & Prejudice Christmas Variation Novella

“Well done," he muttered into the dark. "A flawless performance. Ten thousand a year, excellent breeding, and a social sensibility that would shame a brick.”
― Lefki Karantoni, A Very Tolerable Christmas: A Pride & Prejudice Christmas Variation Novella

“You have just saved your sister from a gorgon. You should be knighted. 'Lady Elizabeth, Slayer of Snobs.'" "It is a tempting title," Elizabeth laughed.”
― Lefki Karantoni, A Very Tolerable Christmas: A Pride & Prejudice Christmas Variation Novella

“And she hated him. The look she had given him—cold, hard, and utterly dismissive— had struck deeper than a facer from Gentleman Jackson himself.”
― Lefki Karantoni, Mr Darcy's New Year's Resolution: A Light-Hearted Festive Regency Romance of Pride and Prejudice

“He stroked the leather binding with his thumb, a look of profound, hazy longing softening his usually severe features. He looked less like the Master of Pemberley and more like a man who had been hit over the head with a very heavy realization.”
― Lefki Karantoni, Mr Darcy's New Year's Resolution: A Light-Hearted Festive Regency Romance of Pride and Prejudice

“She looked at Elizabeth again. This time, the look wasn't dismissive. It was assessing. It was the look of a stable master inspecting new horseflesh.”
― Lefki Karantoni, Mr Darcy's New Year's Resolution: A Light-Hearted Festive Regency Romance of Pride and Prejudice

“I assure you, Miss Bingley, I'm quite comfortable with mud," Elizabeth had replied, her tone light but her gaze steady as it found his across the room. "It washes off, unlike poor manners.”
― Lefki Karantoni, When Mr Darcy Forgot Himself: A Light-Hearted Pride & Prejudice Variation Novella

“And then," Robert was saying, "the horse sat down. Simply sat down in the mud. And I said, 'Well, if you are going to be like that, I shall simply have tea here.'"
Miss Lydia shrieked with laughter. "Oh, Lord Keathley! You are so funny! Is it true you have been to a duel?"
"Two," Robert lied smoothly. "I ran away from both. Running is a very underrated military tactic.”
― Lefki Karantoni, Mr Darcy's New Year's Resolution: A Light-Hearted Festive Regency Romance of Pride and Prejudice

“Good." Mr Bennet sat back down. "Now, go away. I suspect my wife is currently trying to measure your cousin for wedding clothes.”
― Lefki Karantoni, Mr Darcy's New Year's Resolution: A Light-Hearted Festive Regency Romance of Pride and Prejudice

“It was Monday, the twenty-third of December, and the Bennet sisters were preparing for war—or rather for the Opera, which in London society amounted to much the same thing.”
― Lefki Karantoni, Mr Darcy's New Year's Resolution: A Light-Hearted Festive Regency Romance of Pride and Prejudice

“If I had heard Mama exclaim 'But he danced with her twice!' one more time, I might have committed matricide.”
― Lefki Karantoni, Mr Darcy's New Year's Resolution: A Light-Hearted Festive Regency Romance of Pride and Prejudice

“And you are touching her without permission. Remove your hand, sir. Before I remove it for you. From you, entirely.”
― Lefki Karantoni, Mr Darcy's New Year's Resolution: A Light-Hearted Festive Regency Romance of Pride and Prejudice

“Mrs Gardiner followed his gaze and smiled. "She is special, my niece. She requires a partner who understands that her spirit is not to be tamed, but to be matched.”
― Lefki Karantoni, Mr Darcy's New Year's Resolution: A Light-Hearted Festive Regency Romance of Pride and Prejudice

“Elizabeth met his gaze head-on. She channelled every ounce of her anger into that look. She thought of Bingley's abandonment. Jane's tears. His haughty dismissal of her beauty. She narrowed her eyes, communicating a message that clearly said: I loathe you, and if I could set you on fire with my mind, you would currently be ash.”
― Lefki Karantoni, Mr Darcy's New Year's Resolution: A Light-Hearted Festive Regency Romance of Pride and Prejudice

“Mr Collins practically ran to the study, nearly colliding with the doorframe in his eagerness. Elizabeth followed at the pace of a condemned prisoner approaching the gallows.”
― Lefki Karantoni, When Mr Darcy Forgot Himself: A Light-Hearted Pride & Prejudice Variation Novella

“But if you ever lie to me again… " "I won't." "…I will push you down the stairs. Cracked ribs and all." "Noted.”
― Lefki Karantoni, When Mr Darcy Forgot Himself: A Light-Hearted Pride & Prejudice Variation Novella