Sophie Forsyth > Quotes

“I need to speak to her,” he said. Bingley looked at him with a crooked smile, like a schoolmaster pleased with a slightly slow student who has finally grasped the lesson. “Yes,” he said. “You do.”
― Sophie Forsyth, A Compromise by Design: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“And in trying not to burden her with my own feelings, I have instead produced something that looks, from her side, like a man counting the days until his execution.”
― Sophie Forsyth, A Compromise by Design: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“The announcement of their engagement appeared in the paper on a Thursday, between a notice about a lost grey mare and an advertisement for a new draper’s shop in Meryton.”
― Sophie Forsyth, A Compromise by Design: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Tolerable — a word that had not served him well of late.”
― Sophie Forsyth, A Compromise by Design: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Miss Eliza did not deserve this. She had not intended to destroy a reputation. Certainly not her own, nor yet Elizabeth Bennet’s.”
― Sophie Forsyth, A Compromise by Design: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“I have maintained a distance I told myself was consideration. I think it was also cowardice dressed in better clothes.”
― Sophie Forsyth, A Compromise by Design: A Pride and Prejudice Variation