Kelley Armstrong Quotes

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

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

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

Scotland has a reputation for overcast, drizzly weather, but in Edinburgh you get the wind thrown in for free.

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

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

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.”

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.”

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

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.

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

After all, women feign interest in men all the time to better their positions.

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

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.