An Excellent Mystery Quotes

“Well, God’s vision is clearer than mine, he may both see a way out of this tangle and open my eyes to it when the time is ripe. There’s a path through every forest, and a safe passage somewhere through every marsh, it needs only the finding.”
― Ellis Peters, An Excellent Mystery

“But the means—he was less certain that the means were above reproach. But what can a man do, or a woman either, but use what comes to hand?”
― Ellis Peters, An Excellent Mystery

“there’s starvation in the town, though I doubt if either empress or bishop is going short.” He was a man who spoke his mind, and no great respecter of high personages. “A very different tale for the poor townsfolk! But it’s biting even the garrison”
― Ellis Peters, An Excellent Mystery

“His chief uneasiness was that he could not be truly penitent about it.”
― Ellis Peters, An Excellent Mystery