Edwardian Era Quotes

“Perhaps their papas should buy them some manners instead of squandering their wealth on party dresses.”
― Margie Bayer, Goodnight Eleanor

“I suppose,” continued Nate, “it’s not Bertie’s fault that he lacks the physical stature to carry a delicate young woman such as yourself a good distance. I believe he did not care to see you within the folds of my arms which were reluctant to release you, for I thought I would never see you again...”
― Margie Bayer, Goodnight Eleanor

“Anna Blanc was the most beautiful woman ever to barrel down Long Beach Strand with the severed head of a Chinese man.”
― Jennifer Kincheloe, The Woman in the Camphor Trunk

“He stopped, gazing at the girl who stood before it. The man guessed the child to be ten years old. She had dark brown hair to her neck with ends that showed curls, ivory skin and large eyes of sapphire blue. Thin and barefooted, with soot on her face she wore an old, tattered white dress. As the child turned to look at him, the man thought she must be an orphan beggar and he was unable to tear his face away from her eyes. Those bright blue eyes filled with an incomprehensible sadness. What pain did she carry?”
― Suilyaniz Cintron, Windswept

“Who can stop influenza and tuberculosis? The wealth of high society cannot buy off this evil, for their bored children die alongside everyone else.”
― Margie Bayer, Goodnight Eleanor

“Anna shouted, “Help me! I’m naked and covered in honey!” Wolf slid across the kitchen tile, heading for the basement stairs like Hermes in a footrace. “Hold tight, honeybun! Here I come!” Joe Singer charged behind him with the lantern. Wolf was not going to see Anna in her honey, even if he had to shoot him. This was not police work. This was personal. He hurled himself at Wolf. “She’s my girl!” “Not anymore!”
― Jennifer Kincheloe, The Woman in the Camphor Trunk

“Anna lifted her chin, “Forgive my interruption, Mr. President, but I am Assistant Matron Anna Blanc, and I’ve come about the singsong girls.” She remembered herself and bowed. No one bowed back. They simply stared at her. After a moment, Tom Foo Yuen said, in his tar-thick accent, “You are a brave, strange woman, Matron Blanc.” Anna had heard that before.”
― Jennifer Kincheloe, The Woman in the Camphor Trunk

“...Then he touched his lips to to hers. Just a touch. But it lit a spark. Then a fire, a sweeping, a diving. She clung to his shoulders and parted her lips and was lost. Utterly, beautifully lost...”
― Roseanna M. White, The Lost Heiress

“Temptation sat before her, compelling as the sea. Gleaming silver, green leather, the nearly silent rumble of engine...”
― Roseanna M. White, The Lost Heiress

“He did what?!" His shoulder jerked out from under her. "Give me the key. I'm going over there---"
"And what?" Seeing the ire, so purely parental, sparked life into her heart. "You'll threaten him into marrying me?"
"Hardly. I'll threaten his life if he dares to come home again”
― Roseanna M. White, The Lost Heiress

“Our sisters are going to give me an apoplexy if they don't cease drawing the attention of every male guest in a five Mile radius.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Reluctant Duchess

“As I taught you, my dear. Trip. Run into the most ostentatiously dressed women. Step on toes, and snub anyone you can. Perhaps sneeze in a cup or two of punch, and Mary will be begging us to leave.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Lost Heiress

“Butts are for rainwater, my little Baumkuchen”
― T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition

“Perhaps we should all just accept the peculiarities of the world and the people in it.”
― T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition

“Wherever I've been, people have thought I've been up to something nefarious," she said. "A single woman in possession of a profitable business must be in want of locking up.”
― T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition

“One doesn't have to toil to be enraged at the system that requires it of others. Unfairness and injustice affect us all.”
― T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition