Maria Grace > Quotes

“I have always found that making allowances for a liberal amount of fiction in one’s life is necessary to maintaining equanimity. How else does one escape, even for a short time, from the drudgery that everyday life affords?”
― Maria Grace, Longbourn: Dragon Entail

“pay me what cha owe”
― Maria Grace, The Wright Way to Begin

“She turned the door sign to ‘Pease Knock,”
― Maria Grace, The Wright Way to Begin

“I’ll be addin’ your name to list of unwelcomes”
― Maria Grace, The Wright Way to Begin

“How kind of him to question the most treasured memories of her childhood, the events that shaped her into who and what she was today. Did she embarrass him, or was it that her presence sometimes led to surprises like April’s Friendship? He never did like surprises. Or was it simply because she was a woman,”
― Maria Grace, Netherfield: Rogue Dragon

“freshet”
― Maria Grace, Mistaking Her Character: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“I never like that creature.” Mallory sneered at Balthazar.”
― Maria Grace, The Wright Way to Begin

“Laconia, you will help me martial the little dragons to help?”
― Maria Grace, Dragon Keepers' Cotillion

“That’s not how it works, Mr. Malloy.”
― Maria Grace, The Wright Way to Begin

“You have my sincerest condescended on the loss of your father.”
― Maria Grace, The Wright Way to Begin

“We ladies are rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days. Not all of us want a man to shield us from the inevitable storms of life. Especially those of us connected to dragons. If I may be so bold as to speak for a class so broad and diverse, we want someone with whom we can share the task, as a partner and a friend, as I have shared the Admiral’s travels and adventures with him. Unless I am very sorely mistaken, and I do not think I am, your Anne is such a woman. And if that is the sort of way you are determined to treat her, then she should not have you.”
― Maria Grace, Kellynch: Dragon Persuasion

“What major dragons consider to be significant is not the same thing as what is actually significant.”
― Maria Grace, Dragons at Land's End

“Do you really want an answer to that question? I would be happy to give it to you, but I do not think you will like it very much.”
― Maria Grace, From Admiration to Love: A Pride and Prejudice sequel

“Most overestimated their tolerance for unpopular opinions.”
― Maria Grace, Miss Georgiana and the Dragon

“I would return in a month to tell you how the shop faired.”
― Maria Grace, The Wright Way to Begin

“knew you work was good, but this is beyond all I could hope for.”
― Maria Grace, The Wright Way to Begin

“In my experience, Miss Bingley, a person never changes until it is less painful than remaining the same.”
― Maria Grace, All the Appearance of Goodness

“was hard to tell which was stronger, Anne’s urge to slap her own forehead or simply slap Elizabeth.”
― Maria Grace, Dragons at Land's End

“Because he would be a de Bourgh, and they are all alike. I was married to one. No daughter of mine will ever be.”
― Maria Grace, From Admiration to Love: A Pride and Prejudice sequel

“though he has been ill-used and offended, has avoided violating the tenets of the Accords at level the level Cornwall is treading upon.”
― Maria Grace, Dragons at Land's End

“I think you very well might.” Birdy’ air shifted from friend to wise mentor.”
― Maria Grace, Wrighting Old Wrongs