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“We topped a rise just then, and the moor stretched out ahead of us, silvery-white and rustling, like a wide ghostly sea. In the distance lay Grimsgrave Hall, black and hulking as a ship adrift on moonlit waves.”

Description Simile Moors Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Silent On The Moor

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Source: Silent on the Moor

“Something had shifted between us, faintly, but the change was almost palpable. Our friendship had sat lightly between us, an ephemeral thing, without weight or gravity. Once, in the Boboli Gardens, under the shadow of a cypress tree on an achingly beautiful October afternoon, he had kissed me, a solemnly sweet and respectful kiss. But weeks had passed and we had not spoken of it. I had attributed it to the sunlight, shimmering gold like Danaë's shower, and had pressed it into the scrapbook of memory, to be taken out and admired now and then, but not to be dwelled upon too seriously. Perhaps I had been mistaken.”

Friendship Relationship Romantic Kiss Description Friends To Lovers Allusion Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Silent In The Sanctuary

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“Brisbane, if you wish to go about looking like Heathcliff that is your affair.”

Humor Allusion Heathcliff Wuthering Heights Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Silent On The Moor

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“Earnshaw is quite a famous name, thanks to Miss Brontë . I did not realise there were Earnshaws in this country." Mrs. Earnshaw gave a sharp nod. "Aye. And Heathcliffs and Eyres, as well. Proper little thieves, those Brontë girls.”

Humor Allusion Meta Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Silent On The Moor The Brontes

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“They sold the furniture. There is nothing to sit upon and no table to set, so it is the kitchen for you, my girl. Pretend you are at Wuthering Heights. Everyone there ate in the kitchen.”

Humor Allusion Wuthering Heights Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Silent On The Moor

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“There are few greater pleasures in life than a devoted butler.”

Upper Class Butler Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Silent In The Sanctuary

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“Julia Grey, I would rather see you hanged than watch any sister of mine go haring off after a man who will not have her," my brother Bellmont raged.”

Humor Dialogue Beginning Siblings Opening Lines Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Silent On The Moor Older Brothers

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“God was seldom discussed in our family except in a very distant sort of way, rather like our cousins in Canada.”

God Humor Atheist Secular Agnostic Distant Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Silent On The Moor

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“Of course, I did not realize it at the time, but it was to be nothing like a year before I came home again. I did not know when I would see Brisbane again, but I knew that I would. Someday. And indeed I did. That is when we found the body in the chapel. But that is a tale for another time.”

Mystery Series Ending Foreshadowing Last Lines Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Silent In The Grave

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“The days are very alike here, the hours of darkness long and bleak, and I am a stranger to myself.”

Bleak Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Silent On The Moor

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