A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell, #2)

by Deanna Raybourn

“Live long enough and interesting things are bound to happen.

“But you are an optimist, I see, Miss Speedwell. A trait I have often observed amongst lepidopterists.”

There are occasions when only stillness can save you.

“When I most had need of you, you did not leave me. Whatever this thing is that makes us different, this thing that makes quicksilver of us when the rest of the world is mud, it binds us. To break that would be to fly in the face of nature.”