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.
Deanna RaybournTags: love wants wanting not-simple
I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.
Deanna RaybournTags: reasons accepting hesitations
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.
Deanna RaybournTags: heart-broken heart-break emotional-shrapnel sing-it-sister
You have to love someone completely to be willing to destroy them.
Deanna RaybournTags: love destruction
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.
Deanna RaybournTags: fear wisdom truth living
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.
Deanna RaybournTags: dancing road-to-hell something-to-talk-about
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.
Deanna RaybournTags: truth questions sideways a-spear-of-summer-grass deanna-raybourn
I sat down and put my fingertips to my temples, rubbing hard. “We have one fallen tree, one destroyed Rookery, one delusional butler and no good brandy. Is that what you are telling me?”
“And the cook’s down with piles and more than half the staff are suffering from catarrh,” she added maliciously.
I looked to Brisbane, who was smiling broadly. “God bless us, everyone,” he said, spreading his arms wide.
The other travellers do seem to have given us a wide berth,” I admitted.
“Can you blame them?” He surveyed our possessions, and I found myself smiling as well.
“Not precisely a partridge in a pear tree...”
“But we have a raven in a cage, a lurcher on a lead, a Siamese in a basket, and a dormouse in your décolletage. We are a travelling circus.
Your Aunt Hermia will not thank you for attempting to poach her maid. Do not look to me for protection,” he advised. “I have my hands quite full with one March lady. I could not rise to the challenge of taking on another.
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