Claire: A troubled real-life girl with a horrid brother who bullies her. She is the books current reader.
Claire: A friend of Thad's who also takes lessons from Anna
Claire: Maggie's sane sister.
“If Shay Delaney fell into a pit of shit, he'd come out smelling of Chanel No.5”
Claire: Darcy's replacement best friend, a co-worker at the PR firm.
“Overall the library held a hushed exaltation as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.”
“"I curse you with knowledge Jack Randall. I give you the hour of your death."”
“"All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are."”
“If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.”
“I was married to a Scotish outlaw, the both of us hunted by a sadistic captain of dragoons, and living with a lot of barbarians, who would as soon kill Jamie as look at him, if they thought him a threat to their precious clan succession. And the worst of it all was that I was happy.”
“...and in that moment, I felt my heart beak. It was a small, clean sound; like the snapping of a flower stem.”
“I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.”
“No, the fault lies with the artist. The writers, the singers, the tellers of tales. It's them that take the past and recreate it to their liking. Them that could take a fool and give you back a hero, take a sot and make him a king.”
Claire: She is the group leader of the Vietnam trip. (The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger)
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