Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.

- Deanna Raybourn

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

- Deanna Raybourn

When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, ful…

- Deanna Raybourn

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

- Deanna Raybourn

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

- Deanna Raybourn

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

- Deanna Raybourn

I am sorry " I murmured. "I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair. "I just cannot bear to be k…

- Deanna Raybourn

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

- Deanna Raybourn

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 Raybourn