Quotes from Marion Chesney

without touching Annabelle, she managed to urge her along toward the vicarage.

Oh, stow your whids, you dreary watering-pot

Sometimes, when I look back over my life," said Hannah sadly, "I do not think of all the people who harmed me, but quite often of all the kindnesses and wish I could go back and say 'thank you' properly." She

Jealousy was not a green-eyed monster, she thought. It was red in tooth and claw, with glaring, fiery eyes. Her

Ginny looked at him in a puzzled way. "Are you in the habit of saying things you don't mean?" "There is a certain type of wit called sarcasm," said Lord Gerald loftily. Ginny's brow cleared. "Oh now I understand" she said. "You were just being nasty.

Holding her great breast in both hands as if she were holding a pudding, Mrs. Otterley rushed out.

Toby thought. It was a painful process, since he was not in the habit of thinking very much about anything.

She flew at Harriet and tore the flowers from her hair and scratched her face. Harriet, too dazed to defend herself, reeled back. Agnes flew to Harriet's aid and got her face well and truly slapped for her pains. "Slut!" screamed Cordelia, panting. "Jade! How dare you disobey my orders? You have given Arden such a

Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. —Sir John Harrington

You cannot change other people, miss," Yvette would say. "You must change yourself inside first.

The fire that stirs about her, when she stirs, Burns but more clearly. O she had not these ways When all the wild summer was in her gaze. —WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS