“To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“From the first note I knew it was different from anything I had ever heard.... It began simply, but with an arresting phrase, so simple, but eloquent as a human voice. It spoke, beckoning gently as it unwound, rising and tensing. It spiraled upward, the tension growing with each repeat of the phrasing, and yet somehow it grew more abandoned, wilder with each note. His eyes remained closed as his fingers flew over the strings, spilling forth surely more notes than were possible from a single violin. For one mad moment I actually thought there were more of them, an entire orchestra of violins spilling out of this one instrument. I had never heard anything like it--it was poetry and seduction and light and shadow and every other contradiction I could think of. It seemed impossible to breathe while listening to that music, and yet all I was doing was breathing, quite heavily. The music itself had become as palpable a presence in that room as another person would have been--and its presence was something out of myth.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“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, quote from Silent in the Grave
“Of course, he was absolutely correct, it was no concern of mine. So naturally I thought about it--excessively.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“My face grew hot. "We were discussing the investigation," I told him quickly. "He was here a quarter of an hour at the most."
Father smiled at me sadly. "My dear girl, if you din't know what mischief can be gotten up to in a quarter of an hour you are no child of mine.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“Did you mean what you said? You will pursue this?'
Brisbane sipped at his tea. 'I suppose. I have a few other matters that I must bring to conclusion, but nothing that cannot wait. And I have no other clients questioning either my integrity or my courage at present.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“Brisbane put one in mind of wolves and lithe jungle cats, while Edward conjured images of seraphim and slim young saints. It required an entirely different aesthetic altogether to appreciate Brisbane, one that I lacked. Entirely.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“No Julia necesitas aventuras. Necesitas un amante unas vacaciones en el extranjero. Tienes que cortarte el pelo y nadar desnuda en un río. Necesitas comer cosas que nunca hayas visto y hablar lenguajes que no conoces. Necesitas besar a un hombre que haga que te fallen las rodillas y que te acelere el corazón. -Portia”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“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, quote from Silent in the Grave
“Yo no he dicho eso. Tiene usted el don de sacar el peor significado posible de mis palabras. Nicholas Brisbane”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark. As you are not, I will simply bid you farewell and leave you to your fresh and obviously debilitating grief.' He said this last with a contemptuous glance at the Italian books piled on my desk and strode from the room.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“Verá, doctor, los aristócratas somos como los funámbulos. No nos damos cuenta de lo que hay debajo de nosotros.-Julia Grey”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“No, Julia, you need adventure. You need a lover, a holiday abroad. You need to cut your hair and swim naked in a river. You need to eat things you have never even seen before and speak languages you do not know. You need to kiss a man who makes you feel like your knees have turned to water and makes your heart feel as though it would spring from your chest.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
“I am talking about seizing your life and truly living it before it is too late.”
― Deanna Raybourn, quote from Silent in the Grave
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“Love had done this to her, for the second time. Love was bad for her. There must be certain people who were allergic to love, and she was one of them. Not only was it bad for her; it made her bad; it poisoned her. Before she knew him, not only had she been far, far happier but she had been nicer. Loving him was turning her into an awful person, a person she hated.”
― Mary McCarthy, quote from The Group
“I didn’t realize how much I could miss a simple touch until I didn’t have it anymore. It’s so easy to let her back in. To let her wiggle her way back into my arms and smile up at me like she is the sun and I am every star in her sky.
When you spend your life in the dark, looking up and wishing for something better – something brighter – you don’t realize just how lonely you are. Not until the sun shines, shedding light on all the empty spaces and filling them with beautiful warmth. But when the sun abandons you, everything seems darks and colder than before.
Emptier.
Lonelier.”
― S.L. Jennings, quote from Taint
“Now, why don’t you shove in a manpon and tug up your manties”
― Kresley Cole, quote from MacRieve
“What a pity it is that we've lived the lives we've lived.”
― Katherine Ewell, quote from Dear Killer
“She wanted more than anything to believe him. To believe that things didn’t always have to be so desperate, so painful. To believe she didn’t always have to be alone. To believe that maybe, just maybe, one day, everything would be okay.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from The Perfectionists
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