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How riveting. This is a dense book and it took me a while to finish it but I'm so happy I did, for it provides some really wonderfully detailed chapters on things I had read very little about up till now - hobbies in Victorian England. There's no boo
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“You are a scoundrel," she whispered furiously.
"Yes," he agreed. "I'm thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels."
"You're millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy.”
― The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
"Yes," he agreed. "I'm thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels."
"You're millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy.”
― The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
“I needed a book in case of emergencies."
"You mean like being attacked by foul-mouthed highwaymen?"
"No, I mean those moments when nothing important is happening, such as during travel. After supper. Before sleeping. Or whilst one's opponent reloads their gun.”
― The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
"You mean like being attacked by foul-mouthed highwaymen?"
"No, I mean those moments when nothing important is happening, such as during travel. After supper. Before sleeping. Or whilst one's opponent reloads their gun.”
― The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
“She didn’t really know anything about running a shop or magic or jam… But I do know books - and that meant there was nothing she couldn’t know, eventually. That was magic in and of itself.”
― The Spellshop
― The Spellshop
“And she had her books. If everyone living failed her, whenever they did, she had all the immortal voices caught in pages.”
― The Spellshop
― The Spellshop
“We can only control what we do and hope that other people make the right choice.”
― The Spellshop
― The Spellshop
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