Top 98 Deanna Raybourn Quotes
#1. Julia, why are you smiling?"
"Because," I told him happily, "it's only our first night in this house and we already have two mysteries to solve. A most excellent beginning.
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#2. I broke in swiftly. "How kind of you to renew your offer, your Grace. But I am afraid I must decline. Brisbane is the man for me.
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#3. O, the perfidy of men." "What have I done?" he protested. "Nothing at present, but you are the only representative of your sex I have at hand to abuse. Take your lumps for your brothers.
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#4. One cannot innovate new improvements without understanding old failures.
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#5. What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.
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#6. A woman could love a jackass. She could not love a son of a bitch. Many have tried, Gideon. Many have tried.
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#7. You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things
useful things.
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#8. Mrs. Clutterthorpe, I can hardly think of any fate worse than becoming the mother of six. Unless perhaps it were plague, and even then I am persuaded a few disfiguring buboes and possible death would be preferable to motherhood.
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#9. I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.
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#10. I slammed the door in her face and applied my bloody shoe to the lurkers in the bathtub,
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#11. She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been and the person I was finally becoming. Caught between the two of them, I felt rather lonely, as one often does with a new acquaintance.
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#12. I abhorred weakness of any kind but most particularly in my tea.
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#13. He smiled. "I think a blonde. Anything with black hair has always been trouble for me.
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#14. One may be elegant or enthusiastic, but seldom both. If
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#15. If I were going to play the adventuress, I might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, I supposed.
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#16. She had the face of a chocolate box Madonna and larceny in her heart.
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#17. She is wrong, you know. What you do is important. You save people," I told him, pressing my lips to the half-moon scar high upon his cheekbone. "You saved me." His arm tightened about my waist and we stood for a long moment, wrapped in each other.
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#18. Apparently, he uses disguises sometimes in the course of his investigations. In his liaison with Mariah, he used them for discretion. He came to her once dressed as a chimney sweep. Quite invigorating, don't you think?
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#19. I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.
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#20. It is madness," Brisbane said, and he laughed until tears gathered in his eyes. "It may be madness, but it is an entirely March Christmas," I told him. "And do not forget, this is only half the family. The rest will be here for Twelfth Night." But that is a tale for another time.
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#21. You must engage in horizontal refreshment. It isn't healthy to congest oneself like that.
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#22. The world would be a rather better place if we looked only for God in one another.
Harry Cavendish
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#23. I'd had my heart broken, you see. Fell in love with the wrong chap and he crushed me right down to the bedrock. Nothing left but humiliation.
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#24. After all, I might not intend to use him for a plaything, but I could still appreciate looking through the toy-shop window.
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#26. Brisbane and I passed a thoroughly satisfactory and entirely private evening in the solitude of our room. "Thank God for stout stone walls," he said at one point, and I heartily agreed.
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#27. Are you going to say anything?"
Brisbane crossed one leg lazily over the other flicking an imaginary piece of lint from his trousers. "I think he is doing quite well without me."
"I did not mean for you to help him I meant for you to defend me," I said huffing slightly in my indignation.
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#28. I will make arrangements for you and Portia to return to London the following day. I will be closing up the house. I am leaving England for a while." "For how long?" I asked him, determined to keep my composure. "Until I am quite recovered from you," he said evenly. "When will you return?" "Never.
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#30. I am sorry " I murmured.
"I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair.
"I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark.
He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.
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#31. When the light has fled but the stars have not yet shown themselves. That is the gloaming, the loveliest and saddest hour of the day.
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#32. Of course, he was absolutely correct, it was no concern of mine. So naturally I thought about it
excessively.
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#33. If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?
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#34. In creating a new character, it's sometimes difficult to find a touchstone, a North Star that will always point you in the direction that character will travel.
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#35. Did you never think of children then? Ours?" His voice was thick with emotion. "I never expected in the whole of my life that God would be so generous as to give me you. I did not think to ask for more.
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#36. Aquinas was a superior servant; he betrayed little reaction to the news that there was a corpse in the chapel. He merely blinked once, slowly, and then crossed himself.
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#37. You have to love someone completely to be willing to destroy them.
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#38. In my experience it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear then do as you please, than attempt to reason with him.
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#39. Second rule of the bush. Never get too close to anything that has offspring.
What's the first rule?
Food runs. If you don't want to be food, don't run.
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#41. I am quite determined to be mistress of my own fate, Mrs. Clutterthorpe, but I do sympathize with how strange it must sound to you. It is not your fault that you are entirely devoid of imagination. I blame your education
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#42. To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.
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#43. He gave me a look that was almost pitying, and when he smiled it was the smile of a vengeful god. My dear Veronica, I am suprised you have not already learned
everyone has a capacity for cruelty. Not everyone gets the chance to exercise it.
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#44. Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.
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#45. She had stripped away her own illusions for him, and that was as seductive a thing as any woman could do.
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#46. 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.
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#47. To walk away from something is only half the picture. What are you walking towards?
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#48. It seemed a very great folly to attempt to force a declaration from him, but it seemed a greater folly to let him go. If there was a single chance at happiness with him, I was determined to seize it.
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#49. I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.
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#50. They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.
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#51. As a scientist I rebelled against the disorder, and I had long since discovered that nothing thwarted the mental processes like clutter.
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#52. people who had neglected my acquaintance during my widowhood. Widows were skeletons at the feast, dampening everyone else's pleasure,
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#53. Your Aunt Hermia will not thank you for attempting to poach her maid. Do not look to me for protection," he advised. "I have my hands quite full with one March lady. I could not rise to the challenge of taking on another.
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#54. One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.
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#55. Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.
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#56. I went to stand next to him, and he gave me his hand, warm and strong. "I am sorry I kept you waiting," I murmured. "I have waited for you the whole of my life," he replied softly. "What is another minute more?
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#57. To know how a character will behave in any given situation is a necessity and a gift.
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#58. Life is too uncertain ... You must seize happiness where you find it.
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#59. But this is a thing that I know
to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.
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#60. I would give up everything for you, Giulia"
I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world ...
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#61. 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
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#62. Aunt Nell used to say it was not decent to have violet eyes, that they were a telltale sign of bad nature, like ginger hair or a hunchback.
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#63. Our motto is Audeo. I dare. Dare to take the life you want in your own two hands and do not let it go, do you hear me?
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#65. After a moment, he turned sharply to me. 'Are you quite all right?'
'Yes, perfectly. Why do you ask?'
'Because I have just called you contrary and you did not bother to contradict me. I thought you might be ill.
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#66. One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.
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#67. He smiled again. "Your reputation undoubtedly precedes you."
I bristled. "I am not that curious!"
"You are curious as any cat, my love ...
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#69. Africa is a land of dreams and memories. It is rifts of remembrance stitched together with the sighs of time.
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#70. Have you not yet learned that it is easier to pull a star down from the heavens than to bend a woman to your will?
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#71. We are mere humans, Veronica. We are destined to prefer beauty to ugliness." His
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#72. 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.
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#73. He poured out the wine and took a deep draught of it, then loosened his neckcloth, an act of dinner table impropriety that would have affronted most other wives, but which I strongly encouraged. Brisbane had a very handsome throat.
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#74. The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
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#75. Julia, we are all children at Christmastime."
"You are not," I pointed out.
He gave me a shadowy smile. "I think you told me once I was born old.
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#76. 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.
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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.
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#79. Yes, but you usually aren't ...
Well, I have to keep them covered or else you lose the power of speech
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#80. It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.
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#81. Do not collect passion into the equation. It is a dangerous foe, Theodora, like keeping a lion in the garden. It might seem safe enough, but it might well destroy you. No, do not yearn for passion. Ask instead for contentment, happiness. Those are to be wished for.
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#82. 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.
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#83. If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.
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#84. If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.
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#85. I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.
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#86. He slid his arms around her. "Is that how you fixed us together? Magic potions in my evening whisky?" She put her hands into his hair, twisting her fingers and tugging ever so slightly. "I didn't have to fix us. We came that way."
(Johnny and Delilah)
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#87. She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.
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#88. Because if we're on the road to hell, we're going to dance the whole damn way and give them something to talk about when we're gone.
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#89. Oh, yes. I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.
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#90. Religion was as intimate as lovemaking and ought to be as private.
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#91. He smelled of leather and wool and tasted of apples and I could have died in that moment and counted myself happy.
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#92. Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With deft prose and exquisite detail, Stachniak has resurrected one of the most compelling ages in history. Turn off the phones and lock the doors - you will not put it down.
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#94. You men have been forcing us to change our names for the last four thousand years. Why don't we switch it up? You lot can take our names for the next few millennia and see how you like it.
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#95. I felt in this new adventure I was rousing to life again. I was a butterfly, newly emerged from the chrysalis, damp winged and trembling with expectation.
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#96. Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.
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#97. I would have appreciated the satisfaction of a carnal paroxysm - in my experience, they bring a sparkle to the eye as well as brightness to the complexion and a spring to the step - but using Stoker to achieve that end was a means I could not begin to contemplate.
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#98. He grinned. "You realise I'm reporting for duty on the second of January?"
"Good. Then the last memory you'll have of me is wearing a party frock and knocking back cocktails while I kick old 1914 right in the teeth. Let's send it off in style.
(Delilah and Johnny)
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