The Girl of His Dreams Quotes

“Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people.”
― Nathalie Abi-Ezzi, A Girl Made of Dust

“Once a group calling itself a religion has no respectability to lose, no vested interest in preserving the faith and goodwill of its believers, then Pandora’s box is opened. And, as you know, people will believe in anything.”
― Donna Leon, The Girl of His Dreams

“He was relieved to find that he dragged only a slight burden of grief. The relief he felt that his mother had managed to escape from a situation she would have found intolerable had she been aware of it brought him something akin to peace.”
― Donna Leon, The Girl of His Dreams

“year advanced. But in these first weeks it fell only on the”
― Donna Leon, The Girl of His Dreams

“In Campo San Casiano, because he felt no need to hurry, he decided to have a look at the Tintoretto Crucifixion. Brunetti had always been struck by how bored this Christ looked, stuck artfully up there on his cross, posed in front of the hedge of perpendicular spears that divided the painting in half. Christ seemed finally to have come to accept the truth of those warnings that all this business about becoming human would come to no good; He seemed eager to get back to the job of being God.”
― Donna Leon, The Girl of His Dreams

“a great comfort faith can be to those left behind.”
― Donna Leon, The Girl of His Dreams

“Patta’s expression seemed cordial enough, though from past experience Brunetti knew this was meaningless: vipers liked to bask on rocks in the sunshine, did they not?”
― Donna Leon, The Girl of His Dreams