Welcome back to Thursday Quotables! This weekly feature is the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage discovered during your reading each week. Whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, or just really beautifully written, Thursday Quotables is where my favorite lines of the week will be, and you’re invited to join in!
This week’s Thursday Quotable:
It was one of those strange handicaps that afflicted gentlefolk, that they could not open a door for themselves, nor get in or out of a coach without someone to assist them.
Source: Longbourn
Author: Jo Baker
Knopf, 2013
What lines made you laugh, cry, or gasp this week? Do tell!
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- Write a Thursday Quotables post on your blog. Try to pick something from whatever you’re reading now. And please be sure to include a link back to Bookshelf Fantasies in your post (http://www.bookshelffantasies.com), if you’d be so kind!
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- Have a quote to share but not a blog post? Leave your quote in the comments.
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Interesting quote!! 🙂
Thanks! I suppose I probably should have provided a bit of context — this is Pride & Prejudice from the servants’ perspective, and it’s really terrific. 🙂
Having read your explanation in the above comment makes me interested in reading this book. I read Pride and Prejudice for the first time earlier this year and enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
I really ended up enjoying Longbourn quite a bit. Now I just need time to write a review! Your comment makes me think that maybe I should provide a brief synopsis for my Thursday Quotable books — thanks for the food for thought!