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- One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
- It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
- Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
- Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
- It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
- We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.
- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
- You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
- What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
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