5 Quotes by Vanessa Kelly

Papa had always told Justine that guns had a remarkable capacity to focus the mind. She couldn’t say with any confidence that her actions had cleared the minds of the drunken louts before her, but she’d sharpened their attention. They gaped at her, slack-mouth and stupefied, trying to make sense of what their bleary eyes told them.

In fact, he moved with a lithe grace that put her in mind of a cat. A black and rather feral cat, quite evidently up to no good.

I never should have left her.”“Exactly right.”Opening his eyes, he sprang to his feet. “I can’t waste another moment.”Dominic nodded. “Go.”Aden grabbed his coat and hat, cursing under his breath. “I am an idiot. A complete, sodding idiot.”Dominic’s sardonic laugh followed him out the door. “Of course you are. You’re a man in love.

Vivien liked men. She liked looking at the handsome ones and talking to the intelligent ones. But they did little to spark her romantic sensibilities, and she’d always found that rather depressing.

Any woman who, by her own admission, is capable of shooting a man in cold blood is likely the perfect wife for me.