Quotes from The Girl in the Gatehouse

Julie Klassen ·  391 pages

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“Words are important to me. I listen to each one, weigh and measure it. If I cannot trust your words, how can I trust you?”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse


“The body might be engaged in the most base drudgery, but always the mind can be thinking on whatever is lovely, pure, noble.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse


“And therein lies the void between the sexes. Women want long looks and deep discussions, and men want to ride and shoot.” Captain Bryant nodded. “I know I do. Can we lay aside novels for a few hours and go shoot something?”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse


“Flogging will continue until morale improves.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse


“A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. – Lord Chesterfield, eighteenth-century statesman”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse



“How foolish was the fox. How blind. To not see, not value the friendship, the affection, the trust the brown bird offered him.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse


“nature’s noblest gift – my grey goose-quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men! – Lord Byron”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse


“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Girl in the Gatehouse


About the author

Julie Klassen
Born place: The United States
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