Top 30 Raybourn H Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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.
Deanna Raybourn
#7. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. The world would be a rather better place if we looked only for God in one another.
Harry Cavendish
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#12. You must engage in horizontal refreshment. It isn't healthy to congest oneself like that.
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#13. 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.
Deanna Raybourn
#14. I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.
Deanna Raybourn
#15. 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?
Deanna Raybourn
#16. 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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#17. She had the face of a chocolate box Madonna and larceny in her heart.
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#18. 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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#19. One may be elegant or enthusiastic, but seldom both. If
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#20. He smiled. "I think a blonde. Anything with black hair has always been trouble for me.
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#21. I abhorred weakness of any kind but most particularly in my tea.
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#22. 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.
Deanna Raybourn
#23. I slammed the door in her face and applied my bloody shoe to the lurkers in the bathtub,
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#24. I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.
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#25. 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.
Deanna Raybourn
#26. You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things
useful things.
Deanna Raybourn
#27. A woman could love a jackass. She could not love a son of a bitch. Many have tried, Gideon. Many have tried.
Deanna Raybourn
#28. 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.
Deanna Raybourn
#29. One cannot innovate new improvements without understanding old failures.
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#30. 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.
Deanna Raybourn
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