Quotes from Deanna Raybourn

I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.

Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.

Will it ever be perfect?" I wondered. "No," he told me with a smile. "Nothing in life is. But, my dear mademoiselle, life is not about achievement. It is about the effort. If one takes pleasure in every step, one enjoys the whole journey.

Should I be in distress? In a meadow? You mean if the cows organize some sort of attack? I have extensive experience with cows. They almost never do that." "Forget

Stoker to Veronica. I thought it was love but I was so very wrong. I have never known love at least not until..... I thought at some point I would have a great love like that. A woman fashioned by the gods just for me as I had been made just for her. That we would find each other. That she was waiting for me but I did not wait for her. I married a base metal when the gods had promised me gold.

The hardest lesson I had learnt upon my travels was patience. There are times when every muscle, every nerve, screams for movement, when every instinct urges escape. But the instinct to fly is not always a sound one. There are occasions when only stillness can save you.

As a scientist I rebelled against the disorder, and I had long since discovered that nothing thwarted the mental processes like clutter.

You must engage in horizontal refreshment. It isn't healthy to congest oneself like that.

She might be less than what she had once been, but she was still worth a hell of a lot.

I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright.

My face grew hot. "We were discussing the investigation," I told him quickly. "He was here a quarter of an hour at the most." Father smiled at me sadly. "My dear girl, if you din't know what mischief can be gotten up to in a quarter of an hour you are no child of mine.

He was dressed like a tourist, his T-shirt tucked into belted jeans like a sociopath.

I had a vision of you, the first time I stepped into Grey House, the night Edward died. That was why I kept staring at you while he lay on the bed, convulsing between us. I had seen you standing before me, your hand in mine. I could not hear what was said between us, but there was a sense of belonging to you, as if I had always known you somehow, and you had been waiting for me. It came as rather a nasty shock to realise you were already married.

A woman who knows her mind is a surprise to a certain type of man. They do not know how to react to it, so they generally obey,

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

He isn't interested in simple. He wants what he wants. No matter how much trouble she is and no matter whether he even understands it himself.

I think people are much the same wherever you go. Some of them good, some of them clever, and some of them with the devil in them.

And royalty are immune from homicidal tendencies? Study your history, Stoker. I think you will discover that is how most of them became royal in the first place.

Everyone knows the Devil takes care of his own.

You have always been dazzling - the life of every party, the glamour girl who dances until dawn." "Well, I am. But I'm dancing on broken glass. I'm Miss Havisham's wedding cake, Kit. A frothy, expensive, mice-eaten confection. I'm the Sphinx's nose, the fallen Colossus. I'm a beautiful ruin, and it's time that has done the deed.

I was merely thinking that it may have been a very grave mistake to introduce you to Lady C. If the pair of you ever put your minds to it, you could probably topple governments together." I smiled as I pocketed the weapon. "One thing at a time, dear Stoker. One thing at a time.

Did you mean what you said? You will pursue this?' Brisbane sipped at his tea. 'I suppose. I have a few other matters that I must bring to conclusion, but nothing that cannot wait. And I have no other clients questioning either my integrity or my courage at present.

You have to love someone completely to be willing to destroy them.

In my experience it is the trouble you do not anticipate that is the most dangerous.