139 Quotes by Deanna Raybourn

My interests are varied. They include natural history, lady detectives, and good hygiene,” I said with a significant lift of the brows towards his feet.“What in seven hells does that mean?” he demanded.“It means that if you come to bed smelling like something from a barnyard again, I will scrub you myself with rose soap and a firm hand,” I threatened.

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.

It’s the cleverest thing I have ever seen,’ she pronounced. ‘At first glance, you look like any other countrywoman, but you can move like a man in it.’‘I can move like a scientist,’ I corrected. ‘And that is more to the point.

Julia Grey, I would rather see you hanged than watch any sister of mine go haring off after a man who will not have her," my brother Bellmont raged.

I stared down into the opengrave and wished that I could summon a tear. Violent weeping would have been in exceedingly poor taste, but Miss Nell Harbottle had been my guardian for the whole of my life, and a tear of two would have been a nice gesture of respect

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

We topped a rise just then, and the moor stretched out ahead of us, silvery-white and rustling, like a wide ghostly sea. In the distance lay Grimsgrave Hall, black and hulking as a ship adrift on moonlit waves.

God was seldom discussed in our family except in a very distant sort of way, rather like our cousins in Canada.

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.