9 Quotes & Sayings By Luella Christie

Luella Christie was born in 1859. She lived a life of privilege, but her life was one of struggle and tragedy. In her early life, she was raised by a loving family, attended the finest schools and received an excellent education. At age twenty-two, she married a young man from a wealthy Connecticut family Read more

Within a year, Luella's husband died at the age of twenty-five. After the death of her husband, Luella's world fell apart. Her money quickly vanished and she lived on the kindness of others for three years.

One day during the height of her struggle, she met a man named Abner Withey who worked as a cigar maker in New York City. Abner was very different from Luella's first husband and his love helped pull her through those dark times. The two fell deeply in love and became engaged about two years later.

However, Luella's fortune continued to plummet and Abner lost everything he owned and moved to Columbus, Ohio where he built a new life for himself.

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My stomach flipped. I stopped. This guy was trending in my mind big time. Luella Christie
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Leonora is the grownups’ version of Cinderella. She doesn’t take crap from any ugly stepsisters. She doesn’t sit indoors waiting to be rescued by prince charming. Oh, no, she rescues prince charming, Florestan, who’s locked up in a dungeon by his archenemy, Pizarro. Cinderella was fun when we were little girls, played with dolls and believed in passive fairytales. Now that we’re grown women who play with toys, it’s only fit to believe in active fairytales. Luella Christie
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I didn’t like his tone. In fact I didn’t like boys’ tone when they knew they were hot and tried to be rude to girls because they knew they were hot. Luella Christie
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A year ago I would’ve been taken in by his chivalry, but now I knew what laid behind the façade: a frog waiting to bite me where it hurt the most given half the chance. Luella Christie
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He wanted to start from the top while he knew nothing of the beginning and that was why he was always swimming at the bottom. He liked to think he was an entrepreneur and was even on Dragon’s Den with the silliest invention ever: a machine to scratch his back. Why don’t you just reach out, you lazy twit? Luella Christie
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Using the word chic while insulting someone doesn’t make it okay. Luella Christie
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Correct the blunders on your face made through self-delusion — this would be far more fitting than to want to teach me, which is just as if a sow trying to teach Minerva. Luella Christie
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I found myself stuck into a Gertrude’s Dream Waltz universe. Like Gertrude, I was trapped inside a body that bellied little of the person inside, while simultaneously ensnared in a home filled with people that looked like the person inside the unsightly body. Luella Christie