Deanna Raybourn Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Deanna Raybourn
Deanna Raybourn Famous Quotes & Sayings
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She had stripped away her own illusions for him, and that was as seductive a thing as any woman could do.
I think people are much the same wherever you go. Some of them good, some of them clever, and some of them with the devil in them.
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.
In my experience it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear then do as you please, than attempt to reason with him.
I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.
Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.
people who had neglected my acquaintance during my widowhood. Widows were skeletons at the feast, dampening everyone else's pleasure,
If I were going to play the adventuress, I might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, I supposed.
Of course, he was absolutely correct, it was no concern of mine. So naturally I thought about it
excessively.
excessively.
They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.
Have you not yet learned that it is easier to pull a star down from the heavens than to bend a woman to your will?
After all, I might not intend to use him for a plaything, but I could still appreciate looking through the toy-shop window.
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.
I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things
useful things.
useful things.
He smelled of leather and wool and tasted of apples and I could have died in that moment and counted myself happy.
As a scientist I rebelled against the disorder, and I had long since discovered that nothing thwarted the mental processes like clutter.
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.
to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.
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.
Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.
Our motto is Audeo. I dare. Dare to take the life you want in your own two hands and do not let it go, do you hear me?
I broke in swiftly. "How kind of you to renew your offer, your Grace. But I am afraid I must decline. Brisbane is the man for me.
Africa is a land of dreams and memories. It is rifts of remembrance stitched together with the sighs of time.
When the light has fled but the stars have not yet shown themselves. That is the gloaming, the loveliest and saddest hour of the day.
I'd had my heart broken, you see. Fell in love with the wrong chap and he crushed me right down to the bedrock. Nothing left but humiliation.
Yes, but you usually aren't ...
Well, I have to keep them covered or else you lose the power of speech
Well, I have to keep them covered or else you lose the power of speech
Aunt Nell used to say it was not decent to have violet eyes, that they were a telltale sign of bad nature, like ginger hair or a hunchback.