Top 40 Evie Dunmore Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “At first sight, they were still an unlikely match – opposites in looks, upbringing, and temperament. But on the artist’s color wheel, two opposite colors were considered complementary. Their high contrast caused high impact, and they looked their brightest when placed next to each other.”

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2. “Now she knew why girls were not allowed to feel anger – there was a reckless hope in it, and power.”

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3. “How many hats does the man think a woman needs?”

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4. “Tell me,” he said, “how frustrating is it to be surrounded by people considered your betters when they don’t hold a candle to your abilities?”

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5. “That was why they called it temptation – it never presented itself as something ugly, or tepid, or harmless; no, it came in the guise of glorious feelings and a sense of utter rightness, even when it was wrong. That was why one needed principles.”

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6. “The door clicked softly shut behind her. Quiet. It was so quiet here. If she held her breath, she’d hear the dust dance.”

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7. “Tristan, Lord Ballentine. Scoundrel, seducer, bane of her youth.”

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8. “What puzzled her most was that nothing had been missing from her life before him – how could he feel essential now?”

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9. “Woman, the queen feared, “would become the most hateful, heartless, and disgusting of human beings,” were she allowed to have the same political and social rights as men. Similarly, Elizabeth Wordsworth, the first warden of Lady Margaret Hall and great-niece of poet William Wordsworth, saw no need for women to have a role in parliamentary politics. Miss Wordsworth would.”

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10. “Unless you are a woman,” she said bitterly. “Then you are taught that spending your every breath on others is working for your own glory. A rather sly appropriation of surplus labor if you ask me.”

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11. “But her features were arranged exactly how some primal aesthetic blueprint in his head envisioned beauty. It made her look oddly familiar, as if he had long known her and now she had walked back into his life. Impossible, that.”

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12. “She had not yet truly comprehended power then, and how treacherously easy it was to side with it, and to ask that the downtrodden ones change before one demanded the tyrant change.”

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13. “I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”

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14. “Charity? No. I want lasting change. Remember the trouble of raising wages to a living wage as a single entrepreneur? I want a restructuring of government expenditure. A systemic redistribution of wealth – that is what I want.”

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15. “Have you perchance considered becoming a little more likable?”

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16. “Oh, how frustrating,” she said, “to keep a woman’s wages low to soothe a man’s vanity.”

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17. “Bewildering. If it was truly in woman’s nature to be an ever demure and pleasant sunbeam in the gloom, why then, it took an awful lot of ink and instructions to keep reminding woman of this nature of hers...”

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18. “Her words, they came from a place desiring to please or appease, to appear normal or silly, which were usually considered the same in a girl. It was a malaise afflicting most women in Britain, this compulsion to say one thing while thinking another, to agree to things one disliked, to laugh about jokes that were dull.”

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19. “What if love makes you want to fight harder? What if you look at your daughters and see the best reason to keep campaigning for women’s liberty? Or, think of the sons who might raise hell in Parliament as long as women cannot.”

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20. “A bittersweet pull made his chest contract. He supposed that was how it felt to miss someone.”

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21. “If we were of equal station,” he said softly, “I would have proposed to you when we took our walk in the maze.” Oh. The magnitude of this was too enormous to sink in, with her standing on a doorstep, about to walk away. She felt strangely suspended in time, her breathing turned shaky. “I wish you would not have told me this.” Because she could never, ever be anyone other than plain Miss Annabelle Archer, and now she’d forever know how dearly that had cost her.”

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22. “We’ll never see money diverted from the imperialists,” he said. “They’d rather devour the world than feed the people of Britain. I’m looking at the revenue side and currently the most effective lever is to increase the income tax.”

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23. “It would be unwise to keep talking. So naturally, she did keep talking.”

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24. “There was something to be said about debating with a learned man who had nothing to prove. It took more than an educated woman with opinions to threaten him. And that allowed for an easy, absurdly pleasing intimacy.”

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25. “The possibilities may be endless, but the mind is limited. People hardly ever contemplate options outside of what they know.”

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26. “His eyes were striking, icy clear and bright with intelligence, a cool, penetrating intelligence that would cut right to the core of things, to assess, dismiss, eviscerate. All at once, she was as transparent and fragile as glass.”

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27. “Well, sitting prettily certainly doesn’t seem to make a difference at all. If it did, why do we still turn into property the day a man puts his ring on our finger? I say let us try making noise for a change.”

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28. “She was shiny and preoccupied with colors; he had breathed and ingested darkness, had stared at it for so long it had begun to stare back into him. Darkness was a part of him now, encrusted in his soul like coal dust in a miner’s skin.”

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29. “I understand how being pleasant can keep the peace, but how will it win a war?”

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30. “Much that I despise,” he said hoarsely. “and all that I desire, meets in you. And it frustrates me beyond reason.”

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31. “I agree to a betrothal until I can be your equal before the law.”

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32. “Perhaps this is not a question of staying out of trouble, Your Grace. Perhaps this is about deciding on which side of history you want to be.”

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33. “In the controlled, patient way a confident man could afford to wait, Lucian was waiting for her.”

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34. “For if a woman was a person in her own right, one could conclude she was also in possession of a mind and a heart of her own, and thus had needs of her own.”

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35. “But perhaps every woman had known a moment when she felt as though she were drowning, and the only comfort was that there could be some beauty, some dignity, in that, too.”

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36. “I’m afraid the idea that a woman is a person, whether married or not, is so inherently radical no matter which way I present it I shall be considered a nuisance.”

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37. “People have many motivations to follow someone, but a soldier will only ever follow a man for two reasons: his competency, and his integrity.”

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38. “Darling,” he said, “I have only begun to love you.”

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39. “The harder he tried to keep control, to keep the thoughts and emotions firmly buried, the more anarchical it all became, as if a lifetime of leashed passion had broken free and was coming for him with vengeance, as if he had only been spared the lunacy of love before because he had been destined to be brought down by this particular woman.”

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40. “I was a captor to you, but you have given me my only hours of true happiness.” His hands clenched by his sides then, as if to hold on to the stolen bliss, but his fingers curled over emptiness. “To me,” he said, “you were the light in the dark place to which I’d bound myself.”

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41. “And why did him knowing urge her to spill more secrets to him? To tell him that it was like a slow drip of poison, this daily flattering and placating of men for a modicum of autonomy; that she sometimes worried it would one day harden both her heart and her face?”

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