Night at the Vulcan Quotes

“in spite of all her misgivings, she glowed and thought to herself. ‘This is my place. This is where I belong.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Night at the Vulcan

“clock in a jeweller’s window gave the time as twenty-three minutes to five. She knew, by the consequential scurry of its second-hand, that it was alive. It was surrounded by other clocks that made mad dead statements of divergent times as if, she thought, to set before her the stages of that day’s fruitless pilgrimage.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Night at the Vulcan