“No matter how she had suffered, Darby hadn’t retreated from life after all. In fact, she’d embraced it. Quietly, carefully, but with dignity and love.”
―
Fiona Davis,
The Dollhouse
“Leave it to a librarian to point out the alliteration in my life’s tragedies.” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“So how did you get into journalism?” “In high school I worked on the paper. Then I majored in journalism in college. I loved collecting facts and then making a story out of them. The perfect combo of science and art. How about you?” “I” ― Fiona Davis, The Dollhouse
“Isn’t she a gem? You never know who you’re going to meet here. Now that you’re living in the greatest city in the world, anything is possible.” Of course that was Stella’s perspective. With her beauty and steady work, she had an independence Darby envied.” ― Fiona Davis, The Dollhouse
“It’s time to expand our view of the household, and throw off the shackles of gender oppression. I can work, I can have a child, and I can love whomever I like. Just as you can.” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“History is made by people in power making decisions, and their notes and writings reveal the decision-making process.” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“After the first experience of the death of someone you love, each later one is exponentially more painful, because you know how hard it will be to recover from the loss.” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“We all have our own magnificent prisons, even the queen, I’d venture.” ― Fiona Davis, The Address
“The rich think they’re protected, that they have magical powers, when in fact they’re only mortals, like the rest of us. Bodies break down, betray you. People you love die. Children die.” ― Fiona Davis, The Magnolia Palace
“The storyline for this book bloomed from there, although there is no evidence the two women ever crossed paths. In all of my books, I like to layer a fictional story over the scaffolding of historical facts, and then parse out the inspiration for the plot and characters in the Author’s Note,” ― Fiona Davis, The Magnolia Palace
“And many of you bought the lies ... You didn't question them. You didn't fight back. You let this happen ... This is how a society is corrupted, from the inside out. We must make a promise to not ever let this happen again. We must promise to be vigilant against our own worst tendencies. Only by doing so will our country sustain its ideals of freedom.” ― Fiona Davis, The Chelsea Girls
“She finished updating the ledgers and was about to head out to inspect the turndown of the guests’ rooms when a man rapped on her office door. She knew it was a man from its hard, hollow sound. Maids’ knuckles were barely audible, already apologizing for disturbing her, but the men, whether Mr. Birmingham or the janitor, had no such qualms.” ― Fiona Davis, The Address
“She owned her talent fully, like the best of the men, but that meant that many in the industry considered her conceited, unladylike.” ― Fiona Davis, A Wild Rose
“He had loved her, and she had loved him. And life was full of strange and unexpected complications” ― Fiona Davis, The Dollhouse
“Being up so high above the city made her troubles seem less dramatic. Darby” ― Fiona Davis, The Dollhouse
“The loss of the community of women stung hardest, as she had no similar role models in her life.” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“feel like with every year, my brain is a sponge that soaks up painful experiences like water,” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“Even if the gifts her mother ultimately gave her were a disappointment—a pincushion or a dreary pinafore—the unwrapping was always a delight.” ― Fiona Davis, The Address
“After the first experience of the death of someone you love, each later one is exponentially more painful, because you know how hard it will be to recover from” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“Leave it to a librarian to point out the alliteration in my life’s tragedies.” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“So how did you get into journalism?” “In high school I worked on the paper. Then I majored in journalism in college. I loved collecting facts and then making a story out of them. The perfect combo of science and art. How about you?” “I” ― Fiona Davis, The Dollhouse
“Isn’t she a gem? You never know who you’re going to meet here. Now that you’re living in the greatest city in the world, anything is possible.” Of course that was Stella’s perspective. With her beauty and steady work, she had an independence Darby envied.” ― Fiona Davis, The Dollhouse
“It’s time to expand our view of the household, and throw off the shackles of gender oppression. I can work, I can have a child, and I can love whomever I like. Just as you can.” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“History is made by people in power making decisions, and their notes and writings reveal the decision-making process.” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“After the first experience of the death of someone you love, each later one is exponentially more painful, because you know how hard it will be to recover from the loss.” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“We all have our own magnificent prisons, even the queen, I’d venture.” ― Fiona Davis, The Address
“The rich think they’re protected, that they have magical powers, when in fact they’re only mortals, like the rest of us. Bodies break down, betray you. People you love die. Children die.” ― Fiona Davis, The Magnolia Palace
“The storyline for this book bloomed from there, although there is no evidence the two women ever crossed paths. In all of my books, I like to layer a fictional story over the scaffolding of historical facts, and then parse out the inspiration for the plot and characters in the Author’s Note,” ― Fiona Davis, The Magnolia Palace
“And many of you bought the lies ... You didn't question them. You didn't fight back. You let this happen ... This is how a society is corrupted, from the inside out. We must make a promise to not ever let this happen again. We must promise to be vigilant against our own worst tendencies. Only by doing so will our country sustain its ideals of freedom.” ― Fiona Davis, The Chelsea Girls
“She finished updating the ledgers and was about to head out to inspect the turndown of the guests’ rooms when a man rapped on her office door. She knew it was a man from its hard, hollow sound. Maids’ knuckles were barely audible, already apologizing for disturbing her, but the men, whether Mr. Birmingham or the janitor, had no such qualms.” ― Fiona Davis, The Address
“She owned her talent fully, like the best of the men, but that meant that many in the industry considered her conceited, unladylike.” ― Fiona Davis, A Wild Rose
“He had loved her, and she had loved him. And life was full of strange and unexpected complications” ― Fiona Davis, The Dollhouse
“Being up so high above the city made her troubles seem less dramatic. Darby” ― Fiona Davis, The Dollhouse
“The loss of the community of women stung hardest, as she had no similar role models in her life.” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“feel like with every year, my brain is a sponge that soaks up painful experiences like water,” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“Even if the gifts her mother ultimately gave her were a disappointment—a pincushion or a dreary pinafore—the unwrapping was always a delight.” ― Fiona Davis, The Address
“After the first experience of the death of someone you love, each later one is exponentially more painful, because you know how hard it will be to recover from” ― Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue
