Demon in My View Quotes

“We should get over it.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“It was all very well to talk of absence making the heart grow fonder, but “out of sight, out of mind” might be just as true a truism. He hadn’t”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“It was all very well to talk of absence making the heart grow fonder, but “out of sight, out of mind”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“talked dolefully about his job—he sold antiques in a shop owned”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“presumptuous”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“mauve-grey envelope”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“some Haitian gangster-cum-political bigwig. He had seen such characters”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“in a squalid, run-down house in the worst”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“most thumbed”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“This would be a feather in its cap.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“hair, oiled and satiny,”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“insinuating approach a child molester would use? “If you”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“Caspian burst into gales of laughter. “I suppose you were”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“book, banging in the full stops until it looked as if he would break his pen.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“in case anyone might think I was snooping.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“Stanley looked at him truculently.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“Forcing the carefully planned lie out with all the casualness he could muster, he said,”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“stumped in at ten past ten, wearing a checked windcheater that looked as if it was made from a car rug,”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“an early harbinger of the winter to come. Stanley”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“euphoria he felt after”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“scuttled through”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“trickle of water fell between”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“were altered and aggrandised by enormous fantasy.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“therapy, a quick assuagement. But there”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“personal affront and, in a way, a desecration”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“aglow with light from Room”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“Stanley was affable, even considerate.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“considerate”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“work:”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View

“your own now.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Demon in My View