18 Quotes by Cindy Anstey

I have never considered truth to be an insult; it is simply the truth.

You have your own category in entomology you are so beetle-brained.

Next time she flew off a cliff, she would try to remember to wear her worsted skirts. Perhaps then, ouch, she would not have to suffer additional bruising.

I will grab your other arm, you will close your eyes, and up you will come. Back on terra firma.""This is terra firma. " Juliana pointed with her nose to the rugged cliff wall."Yes, but I doubt very much that you want to stay there.""I like the idea of dangling in the air so much less.

Please, I do not wish to be rescued by a gentleman. Could you find a farmer or a shopkeep - anyone not of the gentry - and then do me a great favor of forgetting you saw me?

How did you learn to be a dullard in so many different ways?

I shall be considered completely beyond the pale if I am dashed upon the rocks. Aunt will be so uncomfortable. Most inconsiderate of me.

Cora’s weak smile disappeared entirely, and she eyed Lydia in such a way that Lydia began to regret her approach. But the die was cast – the deed was done, in for a penny, in for a pound. Might as well take the bull by the horns. Lydia was fully aware that in her anxiety she had overused her metaphors.

She quite enjoyed the intensity of the stranger’s gaze whenever their eyes met, and her sudden shortness of breath was not in the least alarming.