An Unexpected Peril Quotes

“You are not among the good that has happened to me. You are the best of all that I have known. You are what I searched for when I left that house and wandered this earth, boy and man. You are the part of myself I never thought to find because I did not even dare to dream you existed. You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me you.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“There will always be men who rally to the cause of another man in his moment of disgrace simply because they fear their own so deeply.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“Why? Death is part of life, child. It is not the end. It is not even the middle. It is merely a doorway. Alice is no further away from me than if she had stepped into the next room.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“Fecklessness! We are never feckless,” I told her coldly. “We are full to the brim with feck.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“I know very little, but I am curious about a good deal.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“The challenges of being an intelligent woman working in a world limited by the whims of narrow-minded and unimaginative men were legion.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“Plans are jokes written by men for God’s amusement.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“Gravity comes for us all in the end.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“To hurl one's few possessions into a carpetbag and embark for a new adventure was the only solace. To leave behind one's woes in a damp and fogbound land, awaking in brilliant sunshine, the air heavy with spices and the promise of fresh endeavors, this was true happiness. A train bound for anywhere, a ship unfurling its sails for some new shore. Steam whistle and snapping canvas, those were the lullabies that soothed a savage soul.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“You are not among the good that has happened to me. You are the best of all that I have known. You are what I searched for when I left that house and wandered this earth, boy and man. You are the part of myself I never thought to find because I did not even dare to dream you existed. You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me to you.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“He nodded. “Of course, the male is so dominant and attractive.” “That is not the male,” I corrected. “The male eclectus is green, the color of his surroundings, meant to blend in and go unnoticed. It is the female which boasts the glorious scarlet plumage. You, my dear general, have made the very common mistake of believing, as so many others do, that the male of the species is the default.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“We were in the throes of a relationship that was perilously new. Neither of us was accomplished at such things, and I found myself suddenly resisting the compromise and cooperation that were the obvious cornerstones of such endeavors. Was I always to be biting my tongue, squelching my most intrepid impulses in the name of keeping the peace? Was he?”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“I am a scientist,” I told him ruthlessly. “I do not require perfect knowledge in order to form a working hypothesis, only possibilities.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“For just these few hours, I was on the tightrope again, balanced precariously between glory and disaster, and the thrill of it coursed through me with far more effect than the glittering wine.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“I had often been complimented, inveigled, caressed, and otherwise importuned in my travels. and it was my experience that a few sharp minuten--tiny pins meant to fix a butterfly to a card--when judiciously applied to an offender's person invariably rendered him apologetic.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“Death is part of life, child. It is not the end. It is not even the middle. It is merely a doorway.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“He went on. “You are not among the good that has happened to me. You are the best of all that I have known. You are what I searched for when I left that house and wandered this earth, boy and man. You are the part of myself I never thought to find because I did not even dare to dream you existed. You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me to you.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“Excelsior!”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“Death is part of life, child. It is not the end. It is not even the middle. It is merely a doorway. Alice is no further away from me than if she had stepped into the next room.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“I think,” she said gently, “you must have enough experience of the world to know better than that. There will always be men who rally to the cause of another man in his moment of disgrace simply because they fear their own so deeply.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me to you.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“We have a saying in the Alpenwald, Fraulein. Plans are jokes written by men for God’s amusement.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril

“She is a little too revered sometimes and people forget to speak to her as if she was a human being. It can get lonely on Olympus.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril