Trick or Treat Quotes

“the first Goddess, Gaia, who was the earth, wide hipped, big bellied, the womb of the human race, the nurturing breast of all humans, the opulent and voracious beginning of all things female.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Trick Or Treat

“My own view is that everyone works too hard and too long and they ought to get out more. There isn’t time in their improverished lives to do anything creative, or even to just sit and stare, one of my favourite occupations. And how the wired-in young—never without their music, never out of touch because of mobile phones, constantly sharing everything, even pictures—are going to cope if they ever encounter solitude and silence is another thing.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Trick Or Treat

“My head throbbed and my mouth tasted like incontinent parrots had roosted there overnight. I”
― Kerry Greenwood, Trick or Treat

“I always stared into the faces of known monsters, trying to find something in the shape of the face, the expression, the eyes, which told me that this was a man who had shoved the Jews of Salonika into trains and sent them off to dreadful death. Every day, for weeks, until he ran out of Jews. I had never found it in Nazis. They just looked like people. It was the most frightening thing about them.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Trick or Treat

“inanition”
― Kerry Greenwood, Trick or Treat

“The hands move of their own volition while the ears are ravished”
― Kerry Greenwood, Trick or Treat

“just want one grown-up in parliament, just one. Or maybe two. I wouldn’t want the only one to die of loneliness. One person who will not take a party line of safe in-between wishy-washiness, who will say, this is evil, this is wrong, not only that, this is silly, I won’t support it .”
― Kerry Greenwood, Trick or Treat

“moments of perfect peace are rare and to be relished. We sat and savoured. The purring of the cat, th”
― Kerry Greenwood, Trick Or Treat

“Locus tristis et palustris,”
― Kerry Greenwood, Trick Or Treat