Victorian Mystery Quotes

#1. Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.

Will Thomas

#2. Apology accepted. If you're finished Mrs. Porter ---"
"Allegra."
"Fine. If you're finished, Allegra, I'd like to go."
"I'm not."
Good Lord, but the woman was a blister that refused to pop.

Chris Karlsen

#3. A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord.

Teresa Flavin

#4. Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.

Sandra Byrd

#5. There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years," Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen.

Teresa Flavin

#6. The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.

Teresa Flavin

#7. I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.

Wilkie Collins

#8. You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve.

Tamara Hughes

#9. Deciphering the rabbit warren that made up the minds of most women was never his strong suit. All he could do was ask for clarification. "Allegra, are you flirting with me?"
Her thumb stopped its stroking. "Um, yes. Am I not doing it right?

Chris Karlsen

#10. It's elementary, my dear Winifred.

Miss Mae

#11. I see. Because I'm not hideous, not a drunkard, and appear to bathe regularly, you picked me. How you flatter me.

Chris Karlsen

#12. Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

Tamara Hughes

#13. I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.

Kellyn Roth

#14. He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man's name.

Tamara Hughes

#15. I've come back for you, my love, my life. Let me look at you, keep you, never let go of you.

Sandra Byrd

#16. Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.

Nancy B. Brewer