Quotes About Gwenn

#1. It was just like in her books, but better, amplified, because it was her heart and her breath and it was real.

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#2. Liza took her time sipping her tea. That's what I hear Janet. Of course, living it up can take years off your life and add them to your face.

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#3. You can cower," she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. "But I will stand.

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#4. They don't teach kidnapping at Eton, dad

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#5. And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women's rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well.

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#6. It is. But not as hard as farce.

Edmund Gwenn

#7. Katherine stared intently at the cold, hard steel. She knew it would be loaded and that, if need be, there was extra ammunition in the back of the drawer. She would not be one of those girls, the ones who sit idly by and wait for the answers to come to them.

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#8. Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I am too tall and too wicked looking to capture the heart of any sensible young man.

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#9. Even then his thoughts did not turn to prayer but to Abbie and to what she would think about his lack of prayerfulness and that surely she would have immediately broken out in prayer. "Doesn't matter now," he whispered and felt that he could not cry out to God.
~William Drexler the Third

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#10. It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.

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#11. And you were always nothing but slime, Henry Wallace. Fancy trash

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#12. If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.

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#13. Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.

Edmund Gwenn

#14. Women are never at ease when they have ideas.

Edmund Gwenn

#15. I can also speak to small woodland creatures, he grins at me.

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#16. I just want to make sure Mama. Sometimes I don't even know what I want. A lot of times I'm just tired."
Mama reached up and smoothed Liza's curls away from her face. "Well darlin', that's the sign of a life being lived. I think we're all tired when we're giving it our best.

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#17. Different century. It's totally okay.

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#18. My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. Viktor, what?

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#19. These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady's things - hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.

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#20. Liza considering back-peddling but thought about her empty bank account. "That'll be fine, sir. I don't wear skirts anyway."
He hmphed as though he suspected she might also be inclined to burn her bra on the courthouse steps and snapped, "No jeans either, this is a professional establishment.

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#21. For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. It seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.

Edmund Gwenn

#22. It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before.
~Katherine Demure

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#23. Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

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#24. Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

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#25. We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

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#26. I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.
~Viktor von Strassenberg

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#27. How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

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#28. Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria "Smythe

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#29. If you two had babies would they be like uber-von Strassenbergs? Would they be like eight feet tall?

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#30. Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, "You are so much like her."
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.

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#31. He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on her leg. Even if it ate her flesh off.

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#32. My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

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