Jasmine Stephens

“There are times when it is entirely safe to show one's vulnerability, to roll over and reveal the soft underbelly beneath. But there are other times when pain must be borne without a murmur, when the pain is so consuming that if you give in to it, even in the slightest, you have lost everything.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Curious Beginning

“If you are trying to frighten me, I assure you, my imagination is every bit as Gothic as yours. I can well imagine the poisoned tea or the slim dagger in the night and the claims that I succumbed to a fever while everyone rallies around my infant,” I said repressively.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Curious Beginning

“He looked like a man who could survive a couple of flesh wounds, but then so had Achilles and Caesar.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

“He was entirely happy alone. He had his books and his music and his specimens, and that was all he needed. He also carried on a wide correspondence. His friends were far flung across the globe, but none of them intimate.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Curious Beginning