Will Raven Quotes

“She had a purple shawl wrapped around her shoulders and her hair was loosely tied at the nape. Hill stepped back and examined her from several angles before announcing that he was content. He implored her to remain as still as possible, looking pointedly at Raven.

Sarah exhibited no similar difficulty, remaining entirely immobile as though she had fallen into an open-eyed trance.

She was not the only one. Raven found himself gazing rapt at her face, the paleness of her skin, the golden highlights in her hair. A sense of tranquility settled upon him, as though the serenity of her stillness had somehow been transferred to him.

‘You seem transfixed,’ observed Hill quietly, walking past. ‘A pity you could not have held such a pose earlier.”
― Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh

“Sarah had been speaking the truth when she said she didn’t dislike him, but she did dislike his presumption of superiority over her, as she disliked it in all young men. Given the same chance, she was confident she would excel over any of them, so it stung when all they saw was a housemaid. Out of necessity, Raven was looking beyond that. Or at least she was offering him the occasion to. She hoped he didn’t disappoint.”
― Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh

“James Matthew Duncan, he decided, was going to be insufferable. He had the bearing of a young man who had never been punched full in the face for an unguarded remark, and Raven instinctively felt he might be the one to remedy that.”
― Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh