139 Quotes by Deanna Raybourn

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

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.

Which is why I stayed long enough to buy every man a pint and winnow out at least a little kernel of wheaty truth from the chaff of gossip.

That is the hallmark of a good partnership, you know – when one partner sees the forest and the other studies the trees.

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.

He paused again, letting his words settle like stones falling to the bottom of a pond.

To know how a character will behave in any given situation is a necessity and a gift.

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.

The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.