“And will knowing what she reads make you know who she is?”
“Can you think of a better way to tell?”
― Donna Leon, quote from The Death of Faith
“a woman whom the course of years had turned sour and to whom the vows meant poverty of spirit, chastity of humour, and obedience only to some rigorous concept of duty.”
― Donna Leon, quote from The Death of Faith
“A wife is her husband’s richest treasure, a helpmeet, a steadying column. A vineyard with no hedge will be overrun; a man with no wife becomes a helpless wanderer,”’ he quoted,”
― Donna Leon, quote from The Death of Faith
Donna Leon
Born place: in Montclair, New Jersey, The United States
Born date September 28, 1942
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“Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Alice in Zombieland
“The next week both small pox and the bloody flux began to go through the camp. General Washington maintained that the flux came from drinking new cider. But the cider-drinking continued, and so for that matter did the flux, which is a terrible death, the bowels emptying out one’s life in bloody spasms. I”
― Gore Vidal, quote from Burr
“No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“It was official. I now wanted to murder a ghost, a notion I'd discarded as unlikely only twenty minutes before. (Cat)”
― Jeaniene Frost, quote from One Grave at a Time
“... was after all a rather mature blossom, such as could be plucked from the stem only by a vigorous jerk.”
― Henry James, quote from Washington Square
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