Raquel Silva

“And anyway, in our house, no-one is obliged to sparkle. Which, I find, makes it far more likely that they might.”
― Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

“True beauty, he declared, had nothing to do with outward appearance. It came from within, the product of a well-regulated mind and a properly formed understanding. These qualities, and not a pretty face, are the real measure of a woman’s worth.”
― Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

“That is the power of poetry,” he said simply. “It allows us to imagine ourselves anew, if we will permit it to do so. It reveals to us the hidden wishes of our hearts.”
― Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister