Lindsay Marcott > Quotes

“I should have seen it coming. Carlotta’s demise, I mean. I should have had my eyes wide open long before it happened. Our ratings had been in free fall for the past two”
― Lindsay Marcott, Mrs. Rochester's Ghost

“I asked. “‘I want to be true to the morning.’ D. H. Lawrence. At nineteen, I thought that meant something.” “But it does,” I said. “Mornings are when everything is fresh and new and seems full of possibilities. I’m at my best in the morning.” “I’m a night person,” he said abruptly. I might have guessed.”
― Lindsay Marcott, Mrs. Rochester's Ghost

“Madder music and stronger wine.”
― Lindsay Marcott, Mrs. Rochester's Ghost

“A poem by a Pre-Raphaelite poet named Ernest Dowson about a man obsessed with his dead lover. He parties hard, trying to forget her, dances and drinks and flings roses with abandon. But when the partying is over and he’s alone in the dead of night, he realizes that in his soul he still belongs only to his dead and gone love, Cynara. I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.”
― Lindsay Marcott, Mrs. Rochester's Ghost

“made it back to the cottage feeling shaken and chilled. Like a first-rate martini, I thought. Except, no, the best martinis were stirred, and suddenly I began to crave one.”
― Lindsay Marcott, Mrs. Rochester's Ghost