63 Quotes by Theodora Goss

You can’t feel yourself blushing. That’s lady novelist talk.

However you feel about maids’ uniforms, we don’t have time to overthrow the social order today.

She had wandered the streets of Vienna and Budapest. No wonder she felt different. Perhaps travel did that to you. Mary had come home, but she was not the same Mary who had left – not quite.

Always ask at the pub, Miss Jekyll. Elementary investigation – the pub always knows.

As far as Catherine was concerned, autumn in England proved that if God did exist, He was an actively malevolent deity.

What was the use of propriety when it kept one from getting things done?

First give them beauty. Then give them darkness.

She leaned over and kissed Carmilla, evidently meaning to kiss her cheek, but at the last moment Carmilla turned her head an they kissed each other on the lips. Laura laughed. It startled Mary – what was the relationship between these two women?

One does not have to dress in a way that is unflattering, or even unfashionable, to be rational – and comfortable. How can you expect women to exercise their faculties, nay, their rights, in clothes that confine them? We shall never be men’s equals while we lace ourselves into ill health and drape ourselves in fabric until we can scarcely move. Dress reform is almost as important to our cause as the vote.