“Cal and I had both predicted that Brizzey would marry young, divorce, then elope with some European slob with a fake title. She was doomed to run around Greenwich, forcing everyone to call her "the Duchess.”
“I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.”
“Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.”
“I think a great book title would be “Ida Says ‘I do’ in Idaho.” It would be about a divorce in Washington State, and the protagonist would be a woman, though I’m not sure what her name should be.”
“Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.”
“And now, the very thing that had earned her the right to call herself Adarlan's Assassin would be what sealed her doom.”