Frances Reynolds > Quotes

“I reluctantly told them, learning several interesting phrases from my uncle in the moments following these revelations.”
― Frances Reynolds, The Wallflower

“Neither is badgering a guest about a personal matter which affects you not at all,” Elizabeth replied tartly.”
― Frances Reynolds, In Sickness and in Health

“Miss Bingley, cease,” he said sternly. “Your attempts to belittle Miss Elizabeth reflect poorly only on you.”
― Frances Reynolds, The Wallflower

“I suppose I must demonstrate what sort of mistress I intend to be, from the moment I set foot on the grounds. I must be Lady Lyfford rather than plain Jane Bennet.”
― Frances Reynolds, More Than a Pretty Face: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“She had pursued acceptance for so long that to be handed it with a smile was as disorienting as it was heady.”
― Frances Reynolds, Vain and Useless: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Hope is a base and feral creature, slinking through the darkness to devour any scrap that may sustain it. It will survive the most dreadful calamities, and its claws deal sharper wounds than reality ever could.”
― Frances Reynolds, The Wallflower

“I stared at him in horror, my mouth agape, my mind entirely blank as all my dreams fell to ashes at my feet. “No,”
― Frances Reynolds, The Wallflower

“Are you happy with the bargain you have made? You shall need to work hard to dower your own daughters, since she brought you nothing.”
― Frances Reynolds, In Sickness and in Health

“The request for a set was meant by way of an apology.” “Ladies need words, Darcy. They are not like us.”
― Frances Reynolds, The Wallflower

“She was not, perhaps, a great beauty, but she was undeniably handsome; her eyes were remarkably fine. When she smiled, she was luminous, and when she laughed, she outshone the moon.”
― Frances Reynolds, Vain and Useless: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“He allowed himself the indulgence of imagining Miss Elizabeth at Pemberley, of showing her its halls, its paths and gardens, and in the longing he felt to make those images real, he at last came to know that Bingley was not the only gentleman utterly lost to a daughter of Longbourn.”
― Frances Reynolds, Vain and Useless: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“She turned that smile on Darcy, and he felt as though she could ask him for his house in Mayfair and he might sign it over.”
― Frances Reynolds, Vain and Useless: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“What he had not been at all prepared for was the even more overwhelming sensation that his questing soul had at last found its resting-place in her arms.”
― Frances Reynolds, In Sickness and in Health

“in the deepest reaches of the night she pressed her forehead to the frost-laced window and silently wept.”
― Frances Reynolds, In Sickness and in Health

“Go on now, Mathilda, take your rest. I shall look after our girls. It is past time I took a turn at it, eh?”
― Frances Reynolds, In Sickness and in Health

“I have warned you before about showing my daughters the proper respect. You are no longer welcome in my home. Pack your things, and I shall have you conveyed to the post station. Our association is at an end.”
― Frances Reynolds, In Sickness and in Health