abi’s Reviews > How the Marquess Was Won > Status Update

we should bring back duels, just with water pistols or paint guns

'"tell miss vale it's urgent she come. i have her cat."
"are we to compose a ransom note to send along, too, then, sir? would you like to sign it, or shall i spend some time cutting out letters from the newspaper and affixing them to a sheet of foolscap?"'

lmfao

'he stopped passersby again and again with the same question: "have you seen a cat wearing a blue bow? striped, has lots of hair?"'

the way he ran out of the house to search for her missing cat because he knew she'd be distraught that he'd escaped......... i may be in love

'she was so often right. it was humbling and disorientating to realise that she in truth knew nothing at all. one only ever saw a fraction of someone, whatever it was they chose to show you, and extrapolated a whole person from that. and saw them through a prism of one's own prejudices.'

'he was still thoughtful. "do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?"
"philosophy, lord dryden? and yet it's daylight and everyone is still sober."'