Betsie Ann

“Reflect that you could have written the book so much better yourself, if only you had the time and the inclination for the task; and that the literate won't be listening, if you're speaking on air, or doing more than glance at your review, if it appears in print; and go right ahead! There will be no reprisals. If the author is young and struggling, he won't dare to expose your pretensions; and if he is well established he won't think it worth while to do so.”
― Georgette Heyer

“Lady Cinderford,’ said the Dowager, referring to her widowed sister-in-law in accents of loathing, ‘will act as hostess at Stanyon over my dead body!’
‘That would be something quite out of the ordinary way,’ murmured the Earl.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman

“Books never tire of me. And in time they present a solution, quietly waiting until I am fully healed.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“I think the hardest thing of all is to be wise in our dealings with the people we love,’ he said. ‘I know I have found it so.”
― Georgette Heyer, An Infamous Army