About Deanna Raybourn: Deanna Raybourn is an American author of mystery novels set in Victorian era England.
He had strong, steady hands, and I could tell from looking at them there was little he couldn't do. Mossy always said you could tell everything you needed to know about a man from his hands. Some hands, she told me, were leaving hands. They were the ...
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.
You have to love someone completely to be willing to destroy them.
Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.
Second rule of the bush. Never get too close to anything that has offspring. What's the first rule? Food runs. If you don't want to be food, don't run.
But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.
She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.
A woman could love a jackass. She could not love a son of a bitch. Many have tried, Gideon. Many have tried.
I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.
Debes prestarle atención a tu corazón, aunque no sepas adonde van a conducirte sus dictados. Hacer otra cosa sería abrirle la puerta a la tristeza.
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, th...
I stepped closer still. He closed his eyes again and covered my hand with his own. 'You smell of violets. You always smell of violets,' he said. 'You've no idea how many times I have walked these moors and smelled them and thought you were near. On a...
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.
