“It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.”
―
Tasha Alexander,
A Fatal Waltz
“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.” ― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
“You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.” ― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
“An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.” ― Tasha Alexander, Tears of Pearl
“Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“I shall be forever grateful to you for breaking whatever unfortunate object you did in order to rescue me.”“Something had to be done, she said, “and it was a very ugly vase.” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“As we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoughly analyzed...” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.” ― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
“That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.” ― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
“I think that as we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoroughly analyzed.” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“The dead are notoriously unreliable when it comes to standards of behavior,” I said. “Particularly murder victims. They have no sense of decorum at all.” ― Tasha Alexander, Behind the Shattered Glass
“Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?” ― Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know
“In France, we leave a single space before and after most punctuation marks. In England, there are generally no spaces before punctuation, and one inserts a double space between sentences.” ― Tasha Alexander, The Counterfeit Heiress
“start her gradual return to society. Black gowns gave way to grey, mauve, and lavender, and could now be made from silk instead of crape or bombazine. To alert the members of her circle that she was ready to face society, a widow would leave calling cards at the houses of her acquaintances. She would begin to accept more invitations, always being careful only to attend events that were not too joyful and to behave in ways respectful of the memory of her husband” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“As anyone who has struggled with insomnia knows, trying to force sleep is at best a hopeless business. Slumber is unimpressed by suitors.” ― Tasha Alexander, A Terrible Beauty
“If you are once sure what you do want, you find that everything else goes down before it like grass under a roller—(all other interests, your own and other people’s. I had” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“You don’t approve of Braddon?” I asked, readying myself to give him a stern lecture on the merits of her work. Not everything, after all, must be an exercise in the intellectual. One does require entertainment on occasion.” ― Tasha Alexander, Uneasy Lies the Crown
“I never faint, Fainting is a result of affectation or too-tight stays; I will succumb to neither.” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.” ― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
“You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.” ― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
“An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.” ― Tasha Alexander, Tears of Pearl
“Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“I shall be forever grateful to you for breaking whatever unfortunate object you did in order to rescue me.”“Something had to be done, she said, “and it was a very ugly vase.” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“As we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoughly analyzed...” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.” ― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
“That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.” ― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
“I think that as we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoroughly analyzed.” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“The dead are notoriously unreliable when it comes to standards of behavior,” I said. “Particularly murder victims. They have no sense of decorum at all.” ― Tasha Alexander, Behind the Shattered Glass
“Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?” ― Tasha Alexander, Dangerous to Know
“In France, we leave a single space before and after most punctuation marks. In England, there are generally no spaces before punctuation, and one inserts a double space between sentences.” ― Tasha Alexander, The Counterfeit Heiress
“start her gradual return to society. Black gowns gave way to grey, mauve, and lavender, and could now be made from silk instead of crape or bombazine. To alert the members of her circle that she was ready to face society, a widow would leave calling cards at the houses of her acquaintances. She would begin to accept more invitations, always being careful only to attend events that were not too joyful and to behave in ways respectful of the memory of her husband” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“As anyone who has struggled with insomnia knows, trying to force sleep is at best a hopeless business. Slumber is unimpressed by suitors.” ― Tasha Alexander, A Terrible Beauty
“If you are once sure what you do want, you find that everything else goes down before it like grass under a roller—(all other interests, your own and other people’s. I had” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
“You don’t approve of Braddon?” I asked, readying myself to give him a stern lecture on the merits of her work. Not everything, after all, must be an exercise in the intellectual. One does require entertainment on occasion.” ― Tasha Alexander, Uneasy Lies the Crown
“I never faint, Fainting is a result of affectation or too-tight stays; I will succumb to neither.” ― Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive
