Quotes from Megan Chance

You don't belong here, Miss Kimble. You're completely in over your head. Learn to swim, or drown. Those are your only choices when it comes to the Sullivans. Now,

It took some time for the hierarchy of Blessington to make sense

Strange, don't you think, that nuns and monks make the most sensual food and drink?

My inheritance had become available, my aunt—my only champion—had been killed, and my uncle had been given power over my person and my money.

I knew then how I would destroy them if I ever got out of Blessington. I would give Dante LaRosa the information he wanted.

Joseph and I arrived at Edward's

Remember who you are." "The Sullivans have stolen from me, and I want back what's mine.

How little they thought about anything but their own amusement. Their lives were so easy, so full of beauty and money. How much they could do with it, and how disappointing to find them so vacant.

City hall was a disaster. My uncle's fault, and China Joe had the proof of it.

I did not know how to say that, nor how to tell Goldie that I had not lived the life she obviously thought I had.

lingering over her name, polishing it like a smooth stone in his mouth, I knew suddenly and completely that this man had a relationship with my cousin that I did

I understand there's a history of madness in your family.

It was all terrifyingly close and painfully hollow, the prison that neither I nor my mother had ever seen in the life she'd chosen for me.

People see what they want to see. They're busy trying to figure out who Bandersnitch is, but what they don't expect is someone who looks like me, so no one sees me, even when I'm right in front of them. I'm hiding in plain sight. I stay in the background mostly. It's a damnable thing, but it works. You were surprised at who I was, remember. I wasn't as you imagined me.

I'm still trying to figure out where you belong." "What is there to wonder about? I'm one of the Sporting set. You said it yourself.

The Sullivans are not well known for their generosity.

The earth giveth, and the earth taketh away.

His family will obey his request to bequeath May, as long as we continue to adhere to my promise to Charles that we never contact them in any way.

I will not tell her that you sold our family home in Newport without telling me and then left me in the cold with nothing because you were so jealous that Charles preferred me. I will not do this because you are all May has left. She

Just remember, my dear, not to judge so harshly. There are two sides to every story.

Life is short. No need for it to be boring too.

doesn't he come for us? Why does he want us to be poor?

No one had ever told me I was not a poor relation. They meant to steal from me and keep me believing I was beholden to them.

So I ignored the rest. I ignored everything that told me nothing was as I'd believed. That was my first mistake.