Edinburgh Dusk (Ian Hamilton Mysteries #2)

by Carole Lawrence

“‘All that lives must die,’”

“Life takes things from all of us, Ian. Perhaps not evenly, or fairly, but loss is universal. You can wrap yourself in your own grief, or you can move forward. There is no middle ground.”

“You are mistaken in the notion that your life is separate from all others. That is a fiction. Your choices have an effect upon the people around you,”

“I don’t have to trust my instructors—I just have to learn from them.”

“I envy you, being so close to all that genius, a mouthpiece for immortality.”

“My mother always said false modesty is as bad as bragging—and she was Irish, so she knew a little about bravado.”

‘Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, blood and revenge are hammering in my head.’” “That’s not from Hamlet, sir.” “No, it’s Titus Andronicus.”

“Revenge is a dark alley no man should tread,