Kelley Armstrong

"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.”"

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

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

"Science and popular opinion rarely progress at the same rate."

"Judging by what I read of Lady Inglis’s letter, Victorians are having—and enjoying—sex. They just don’t talk about it. How terribly Victorian of them."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"I feel that the more I discuss the future with you, the more discouraged I become."

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

"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.”"

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

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

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

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

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