Pearl Parkin Quotes

“Pleased as punch. That's an odd-sounding turn of phrase, isn't it? How can a punch be pleased? It's punch. Rum and lemons and such. And if it's the other sort of punch they mean, a punch in the face- well that doesn't sound very pleasing at all, does it?”
― Gail Dayton, Heart's Blood

“Pearl spent the passing days buried so deep in the musty, dusty sorcery tomes that sometimes when she emerged, she spoke in archaic english. "Hast thou a light?" she'd asked him this afternoon when her study room had grown dark with gathering clouds.”
― Gail Dayton, Heart's Blood

“She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mountibg a carriage”
― Gail Dayton, Heart's Blood

“She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mounting a carriage”
― Gail Dayton, Heart's Blood

“The warmth in his eyes flared to heat and he captured her hand in both of his, bending over it to hold his lips against the back a long moment. He did not exactly kiss it so much as breathe her in. She feared her hand smelled of bacon, but he didn't seem to care.”
― Gail Dayton, Heart's Blood