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“And you should not be frightened of the darkness, but instead be sure that the most frightening thing in it is you.”
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“You're a brand-new piece of sheet music,' she said slowly, 'for a song which, once played, I'd swear I'd always known.”
― Lovely War
― Lovely War
“Prickly?" I say. "I'm not prickly."
"Felicity Montague, you are a cactus.”
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
"Felicity Montague, you are a cactus.”
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“Anything can be a compliment if you take it as one.”
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“Another storybook hero to swoop in and rescue a girl from a dragon or a monster or herself - they're all the same. A woman must be protected, must be sheltered, must be kept from the winds that would batter her into the earth. But I am a wildflower and will stand against the gales. Rare and uncultivated, difficult to find, impossible to forget.”
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
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