Anna Lee Huber > Quotes

“We all must deal with our shadows the best we can. No one can conquer them for us.”
― Anna Lee Huber, The Anatomist's Wife

“Remember friends as you pass by as you are now so once was I. As I am now so you must be prepare yourself to follow me.
(18th Century epitaph)”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Grave Matter

“People changed, often for the worse.”
― Anna Lee Huber, The Anatomist's Wife

“I knew the truth. I was alone. And likely would always be. That normally did not trouble but lately I had begun to feel the weight of such a truth, the isolation of such a life, and it upset me more than I would have liked to admit.”
― Anna Lee Huber, The Anatomist's Wife

“These people, these neighbors, both Protestant and Catholic alike, who spat at each other with such hatred that it sometimes erupted into violence, did so because their faith was slightly different. Because they couldn’t be bothered to learn the truth about each other.”
― Anna Lee Huber, As Death Draws Near

“I settled for soothing as many of his hurts as I could with my love. Perhaps if I kissed every square inch of him, if I whispered enough words of love into his skin as I held him as close as humanly possible, it would be a start.”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Brush with Shadows

“Sometimes it was difficult to accept the terrible lengths people would go to for their beliefs, particularly when they fooled themselves into thinking they were acting in the Lord’s name or for the public’s good when they were truly reacting out of hatred and fear.”
― Anna Lee Huber, As Death Draws Near

“I’d taken to carrying my Hewson percussion pistol with me always. One never knew when one would be kidnapped from the theater by criminals or forced to ride out and save one’s fiancé from bandits.”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Study in Death

“As for your guilt, you need to let it go. Once and for all.” She leaned forward, staring intently into my eyes. “Holding on to it after you’ve already asked for forgiveness is like saying you don’t trust in the Lord’s ability to wash us clean of our sins.”
― Anna Lee Huber, As Death Draws Near

“I was not so narrow-minded as to not recognize that many of the enemy were good men caught up in the same cog of war that had entrapped us all. Men I would probably have befriended under other circumstances.”
― Anna Lee Huber, Treacherous Is the Night

“War makes the irrational rational,' I replied simply and then sighed. 'I know this isn't war anymore, but...'
His gaze met mine. 'But it sure bloody feels like it.”
― Anna Lee Huber, Treacherous Is the Night

“If all else fails, proceed with unbending civility.”
― Anna Lee Huber, Mortal Arts

“The first time I laid eyes on Langstone Manor I could not blame my husband for staying away for over fifteen years.”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Brush with Shadows

“Now you also have power over me, he murmured. Though in truth, you always did.”
― Anna Lee Huber, Secrets in the Mist

“I'd learned long ago that just because someone was likeable did not mean they weren't capable of terrible things.”
― Anna Lee Huber, An Artless Demise

“And the revelation of at least one of those secrets had far deadlier consequences.”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Perilous Perspective

“outcast.”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Study in Death

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be spilt. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE”
― Anna Lee Huber, An Artless Demise

“Even when it came to matters of art.”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Wicked Conceit

“And I have learned that it is always better to speak the language of the country you are in, so that they do not believe that you are conspiring against them.”
― Anna Lee Huber, Murder Most Fair

“take comfort in the fact that they were in heaven, beyond want or fear or cold or pain,”
― Anna Lee Huber, Sisters of Fortune

“What if the life I’ve led, the entire life, was the one I was supposed to have all along? The good and the bad.” I held up a hand. “I’m not saying I’m glad Sir Anthony mistreated me or that Will had to die as he did, or that God wished for any of it to happen. But . . . what if it was the only way I could become who I am right now? What if it was the only way I could become the mother this child needs?” I breathed deeply, feeling something loosen inside me, some deep source of pain I’d been harboring. “Then, I can accept that.”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Wicked Conceit

“For when she thought, when she felt, she remembered.”
― Anna Lee Huber, Sisters of Fortune

“There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Study in Death

“Whatever evil your husband wrought, it was not your doing.” Those words twisted inside me, and I smiled sadly. “Believe me, I know.”
― Anna Lee Huber, The Anatomist's Wife

“Yes, well, intelligence isn't merely about the amount of knowledge and skills one possesses, but also knowing when it's best to utilize someone else's knowledge and skill set”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Certain Darkness

“I know what kind of work you really did during the war. I know the secrets you hide. Why shouldn't I also know your husband's?”
― Anna Lee Huber, This Side of Murder

“I had witnessed more times than I could count how the act of murder could drive the sense right out of a person.”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Perilous Perspective

“And a healthy dose of good fortune for us to escape with our lives.”
― Anna Lee Huber, An Artless Demise

“1919”
― Anna Lee Huber, A Fatal Illusion