Elizabeth Edmondson > Quotes

“Eram pequenos nadas que faziam com que a vida valesse afinal a pena.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Observou a doce ondulação das águas a rebentar na praia. Porque é que o mar sempre em movimento era tão calmante, tão infinitamente sedutor?”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Podes viver a tua vida para agradar os outros e nunca te sentires completamente bem, totalmente viva, ou podes viver a vida que queres para agradar a ti própria.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Um coração destroçado recupera? As pessoas refazem-se da perda do amor da vida delas? Ou o tempo cura tudo porque há mais marés que marinheiros?~2”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Art of Love

“You can live your life to please others, and will never be quite well, never be totally alive, or you can live the life you want, to please yourself,’ she’d said to Delia. Delia had been disbelieving, alarmed. ‘What shall I do if I don’t sing? It’s all I can do, and I love music.’ ‘Sing something entirely different,”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy: Escape to the Italian sun with this captivating, page-turning mystery

“I expect she’s going to be tall, which isn’t necessarily a blessing for a woman, not with so many short men in the world.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“Guilt is nothing but a moral tale to confuse people who are too stupid to see the consequences of their actions.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“It only takes clear thinking and energy to change a life for the better, to set it off in a new direction.”’ ‘She”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“Porque é que fazemos as coisas que fazemos? Porque é que damos tantas vezes cabo das nossas vidas fazendo coisas que na altura parecem fazer sentido apesar de uma vozinha nos murmorar ao ouvido que estamos a cometer um grande erro?”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“It was the little nothings that made life worth living, in the end. Then”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“You’re like the man who lost his key. When asked why he was looking in that particular spot for it and was he sure he’d dropped it there, he said, no, he hadn’t dropped it there, but that was where the light was. You’re looking under the light, and you need to investigate the shadows. Begin with the victim.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“It was a Victorian pile, sprouting turrets and gargoyles with wild abandon, the extravagant creation of a tycoon who’d made a fortune in an earlier and more confident era.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!” That’s what he said about Oxford.’ ‘No.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, Voyage of Innocence

“One was no longer young. Lean, with intense dark eyes, she looked as though she should have been stirring a cauldron.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“Why was he answering her questions? He was trained to hold up under interrogation, but Mrs Partridge had no trouble getting information out of him. Nor out of anyone else, probably. Perhaps she was indeed a witch. ‘So”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“Teeth,’ Richard was saying. ‘They identified him by his dental work. Makes you think, doesn’t it, when all that’s left of a man’s individuality are his fillings.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“He watched with fascination as she finished her boiled egg, turned the shell upside down, and returned it to the egg-cup before crushing it into bits with her spoon. ‘Whatever did you do that for?’ Hugo said. ‘To make sure a witch doesn’t take up residence, of course. Don’t you know anything?”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“I fancy there’s a rod of steel hidden in those tweeds and twinset”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“What’s up?’ he said. ‘Lord help us, sir, there’s something horrible buried under the flagstones.’ For”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“The people you grew up with were the people who taught you what human beings were like. You never knew anyone better than you knew your family. Everyone else you lived with, you came to with an adult’s sensibilities and mind and emotions. And defences. Which wasn’t the same.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Frozen Lake: A Vintage Mystery

“Georgia, talking out of the side of her mouth in a way she’d copied from a gangster film, said, ‘I’ll show you later.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Question of Inheritance

“defectors appeared at the press conference”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“Mrs Tempest came in with a tray of coffee and biscuits. Hugo had a sense of déjà vu. How often, before setting off on a mission, had he sat in an office with some deskbound superior, drinking weak coffee and eating biscuits. This mission wouldn’t take him to the wild spots of Eastern Europe. Now he was on his way to Room 19 on the top floor of this preposterous Victorian mansion. To a desk of his own, a regulation-size desk with regulation buff folders on it. And he’d no doubt end up with a regulation buff mind.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“Fiona, put your hat straight. Mathilda, where are your gloves? Deirdre, how many times do I have to tell you not to stand on one leg?’ ‘My stockings make me itch,’ said the unfortunate Deirdre, who had been rubbing her shin violently with the edge of her sensible brown leather shoe. ‘Deirdre! Mentioning underwear in public, whatever are you thinking of?”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Frozen Lake: A Vintage Mystery

“She had expected the mood to pass, that in a little while she would want to be back among her set - but it hadn’t happened. The liveliness seemed brittle, their vivacity aimless and empty, the round of parties and night clubs pointless, the sophistication superficial and unsatisfactory.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Frozen Lake: A Vintage Mystery

“Modern sins are perhaps beyond the compass of the church.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“By the time they reached Selchester, Hugo’s leg hurt like hell. It was a gritted-teeth job, and he struggled not to wince every time he had to change gear. Georgia was sitting beside him; she gave her brother a glance or two but didn’t offer any sympathy. She’d said more than once that since his leg was the way it was, he would just have to get used to it, which practical and pragmatic response to his injury rather pleased him. But at the moment he wasn’t thinking of Georgia, or how he’d injured his leg, or regretting what it had done to him. He was just wondering if he could last out until they got to Selchester Castle and he could climb out of the car. They had stopped on the way, more often than he would have done in the old days, but nonetheless it was a four-hour drive from London and the longest stretch of time behind the wheel he’d attempted since he’d been shot.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“Dunne’s Experiment with Time”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute

“Why is it that the nicest men always end up in the hands of ghastly women?”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, The Villa in Italy

“path that led to the woods, Freya headed down the drive and towards Selchester.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Man of Some Repute