✨🧟"Girls! Pentagon of Death!"🧟✨
I shall never relinquish my sword for a ring.
It began with the black plague. The dead began to rise.
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“To succeed in polite society, a young woman must be many things: kind, well-read and accomplished. But to survive in the world as we know it, she’ll need other qualities.”
“I was unaware that zombies possessed such acuity so as to set such traps. Before we know it, they’ll be running for Parliament.”
Nothing less than a dance on Tuesday, could have made such a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday endurable to Kitty and Lydia.
Quote from Page 71 of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Paperback edition, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
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don’t mess with the bennet sisters (ง •̀_•́)ง
I'll prove that I'm strong
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"I do not know which I admire more: your skill as a warrior or your resolve as a woman."
With his income, you’d think him handsome if he had half a zombie face.
It gave me hope.
The worst thing about being a master of the deadly art, Kitty Bennet thought, was the wardrobe. Sparring gowns, battle gowns, executioner's gowns - it didn't matter. They were all dull dull dull!
A warrior's clothes had to be sleek, simple, functional; she understood that. No one wanted to trip over their own train just as they were about to disembowel an enemy, and there was no way to justify white kid gloves when armored gauntlets would be more apropos. Still, what would be so wrong with a little color? A little allure? A lace trim or show of decolletage? She'd put flowers in her hair the second morning of the Battle of Cotswolds, and you'd have thought she'd reported for duty in nothing but her petticoat, her father was so furious.
From Page 50 of Dreadfully Ever After, Book #2 of the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies book series, by Steve Hockensmith, paperback
❝ I shall never relinquish my sword for a ring. ❞
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The Bennet Sisters + Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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As Mr. Darcy walked off, Elizabeth felt her blood turn cold. She had never in her life been so insulted. The warrior code demanded she avenge her honour. Elizabeth reached down to her ankle, taking care not to draw attention. Then, her hand met the dagger concealed beneath her dress. She meant to follow this proud Mr. Darcy outside and open his throat.
Quote from Pages 13-14 of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Paperback edition, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
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But no sooner had she grabbed the handle of her weapon than a chorus of screams filled the assembly hall, immediately joined by the shattering of window panes. Unmentionables poured in, their movements clumsy yet swift; their burial clothing in a range of untidiness. Some wore gowns so tattered as to render them scandalous; other wore suits so filthy that one would assume they were assembled from little more than dirt and dried blood. Their flesh was in varying degrees of putrefaction; the freshly stricken were slightly green and pliant, whereas the longer dead were grey and brittle - their eyes and tongues long since turned to dust, and their lips pulled back into everlasting skeletal smiles.
A few of the guests, who had the misfortune of being too near the windows, were seized and feasted on at once. When Elizabeth stood, she saw Mrs. Long struggle to free herself as two female dreadfuls bit into her head, cracking her skull like a walnut, and sending a shower of dark blood spouting as high as the chandeliers.
Quote from Page 14 of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Paperback edition, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
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I shall never relinquish my sword for a ring.
As guests fled in every direction, Mr. Bennet's voice cut through the commotion. "Girls! Pentagon of Death!"
Elizabeth immediately joined her four sisters, Jane, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia in the center of the dance floor. Each girl producted a dagger from her ankle and stood at the tip of an imaginary five-pointed star. From the center of the room, they began stepping outward in unison - each thrusting a razor-sharp dagger with one hand, the other hand modestly tucked into the small of her back.
Quote from Page 14 of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Paperback edition, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
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The second unmentionable was a lady, and much longer dead than her companion. She rushed at Elizabeth, her clawed fingers swaying clumsily about. Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head, which exploded into a cloud of brittle skin and bone. She, too, fell and was no more.
Quote from Page 28 of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Paperback edition, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
“Her face is rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes and i’m forced to acknowledge her figure as both light and pleasing and that her arms are surprisingly muscular yet not so much as to be unfeminine”
Men being casual while the ladies do the fighting #poetic cinema
“Her face is rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. And I’m forced to acknowledge her figure as both light and pleasing. That her arms are surprisingly muscular but not so much as to be unfeminine.” - Mr. Darcy
From a corner of the room, Mr. Darcy watched Elizabeth and her sisters work their way outward, beheading zombie after zombie as they went. He knew of only one other woman in all of Great Britain who wielded a dagger with such skill, such grace, and deadly accuracy.
Quote from Page 14 of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Paperback edition, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
we're standing strong, carry on
#there is something so viscerally satisfying about watching the bennet sisters kick zombie ass in perfect graceful unison#like#i’m glad this bonkers au exists to be before our eyeballs
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Keeping Up With the Darcys: Bingley’s Edition
Apart from the attack, the evening altogether passed off pleasantly for the whole family. Mrs. Bennet had seen her eldest daughter much admired by the Netherfield party. Mr. Bingley had danced with her twice, and she had been distinguished by his sisters. Jane was as much gratified by this as her mother could be, though in a quieter way. Elizabeth felt Jane's pleasure. Mary had heard herself mentioned to Miss Bingley as the most accomplished girl in the neighbourhood; and Catherine and Lydia had been fortunate enough never to be without partners, which was all that they had yet learned to care for at a ball. They returned, therefore in good spirits to Longbourn, the village where they lived, and of which they were the principal inhabitants.
Quote from Page 16 of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Paperback edition, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith