“You can cower, she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. But I will stand.”

“He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on her leg. Even if it ate her flesh off.”

“They dont teach kidnapping at Eton, dad”

“My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905”

“That Abbie is such a freaking brat who doesnt know anything! My William is wasting away in that castle and that stuck up, self-righteous cow doesnt even care because now shes just all ooooo, Peter ...”

“You can cower,” she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. “But I will stand.”

“That Abbie is such a freaking brat who doesnt know anything! My William is wasting away in that castle and that stuck up, self-righteous cow doesnt even care because now shes just all ooooo, Peter ...”

“Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”

“Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdycommon sense of a burgher-class in the making.”

“You see the world in colors,I see in Black and Red.”

“These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a ladys thingshairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he ...”