A Dangerous Collaboration Quotes

“Stoker’s smile was slow and terrible. ‘You think that is love, brother? That I should kill for her?’ He shook his head, his eyes locked with mine. ‘You are the fool, Tiberius, because you still do not understand. I do not love her enough to kill for her.’ He stepped to the edge of the rock. ‘I love her enough to die for her.’

And without another word, he disappeared over the edge of the rock and into the blackness of the sea.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“Is there any feeling as delicious as the beginning of a new adventure? To be perched upon the precipice of a fresh endeavor, poised for flight, the winds of change ruffling the feathers, ah, that is what it means to be alive!”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“His lips twisted. ‘Met. So tame a word for it. It was not a meeting, Veronica. I was introduced to her and it was like finding a part of myself that had been somehow walking the earth without me. She was my other half when I had not realized I was incomplete.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“Veronica Speedwell, I meant it then and I mean it now and I shall mean it with every breath until my last. I love you.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“Plants develop poison as a protection against predation. Should I keep one out simply because it has learnt better than its brothers how to defend itself? Roses have thorns and yet no one ever thinks to ban them from a garden for being prickly.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“Tis a hard thing for a child to know she isn't wanted. It gets into her blood and bones until she knows that she must always find her own way, for none will smooth her path. But that sort of thing makes a woman strong, you know.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“Did you know that if you rub a cat's fur the wrong way with a piece of silk, you can make sparks? Little flickers of electricity conjured from your bare fingertips. it is the nearest thing to being a god. That is how I feel when I spar with you.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“It’s the cleverest thing I have ever seen,’ she pronounced. ‘At first glance, you look like any other countrywoman, but you can move like a man in it.’

‘I can move like a scientist,’ I corrected. ‘And that is more to the point.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“Lord Templeton-Vane bared his teeth in what a stupid person might have mistaken for a smile.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“Ah, that touch of asperity! You are the only one of my acquaintance who is unafraid to spice your conversation with that particular pepper.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“Which is why I stayed long enough to buy every man a pint and winnow out at least a little kernel of wheaty truth from the chaff of gossip.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“You think that is love, brother? That I should kill for her?" He shook his head, his eyes locked with mine.
"You are the fool, Tiberius, because you still do not understand. I do not love her enough to kill for her." He stepped to the edge of the rock. "I love her enough to die for her.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“It isn’t kindness to give a thirsty man water,” she said. “It is human decency.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“Her idea of roughing it is not taking the second footman”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“Ordinary butterflies derive their color from scales, infinitesimally small and carrying all the colors of the rainbow within them, reflecting back the jewel tones associated with the most magnificent butterflies. Moths and more restrained specimens of butterfly have scales with softly powdered hues, but the most arresting sight is by far the butterfly without any scales at all. The wings of these butterflies are crystalline in their clearness, patterned only with narrow black veins like the leaded glass of a cathedral window, the thinnest of membranes stretching between them. It seems impossible that they can fly, but they do, like shards of glass borne upon the wind.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“He paused again, letting his words settle like stones falling to the bottom of a pond.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“I was introduced to her and it was like finding part of myself that had been somehow walking the earth without me. She was my other half when I had not realized I was incomplete.” I”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“A rush of pleasure surged through me. This was how it had so often been between us, repartee serving as the language of the heart for us. Where others might whisper little poetries, Stoker and I engaged in badinage, each of us certain that no one else in the world understood us a well a the other.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“Have you ever turned over a stone just to watch the nasty things wriggling underneath?” “I think every child has.” His mouth thinned into a cruel smile. “I am no longer a child. There’s a baser word for what I like to do. Let us simply say that kicking over this particular stone amuses me.” “Then let us hope you do not get stung.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“I know I must go to my fate, as Andromeda to the Kraken, ready to be chained upon the rock and wait for my doom. But there is no heroic Perseus to wing to my rescue. I must break my own chains, Mertensia. Will you help me?”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration