Kelley Armstrong Quotes

He was the worst sort of gentry—the sort that mistakes the luck of birth for an actual accomplishment. As if he chose to be born into money and title and had nothing but contempt for those of us lacking the foresight to do the same.

Ultimately, you are his physician, which is probably why he is about to die.

I no longer wonder at Victorian mortality rates. Now I just marvel that anyone survived at all.

Have you been drinking?" I say.
"Why does everyone ask me that when I am in a good mood?

There’s cruel, and then there’s downright evil.

Yet not everyone reading broadsheets realizes they aren’t accurate reporting, making them the internet news sites of the Victorian era.

I’d never say I don’t want him coming to my rescue if I need it. I’m a feminist, not an idiot.

My husband is already dead. He only needs to stop breathing to make it official.

Here’s where I’m going wrong. Well, one of the many ways I am going wrong. I feel superior to these people. I’m from the twenty-first century. So much more enlightened than them. That’s bullshit, of course.
I have the advantages of the modern world. Thinking it makes me smarter is the polar opposite of “enlightened.”

Like so many regulations the Anatomy Act was created to solve one problem and caused another.

She isn’t old and cranky. She’s just cranky.

He flips a thruppence my way. I catch it.
“Why thank you, sir. I find I have grown most fond of money.”
“Odd. That seems a common condition among those who do not have it.”

Victorian flirting doesn’t require much. Flatter him. Laugh at his jokes. Let him ogle my cleavage. Okay, this probably also works in my own time.

To her credit, she is interesting. In the same way as a venomous snake.

Fate deals unexpected hands, and we learn to play the cards we are given.