The Golden Egg Quotes

“The cat condominium still stood in front of the church of San Lorenzo. At this distance, Brunetti could not see any of the residents in front of it, but the sight of the tiny structure cheered him, as it always did. Unruly creatures, cats, and profoundly, incorrigibly disobedient.”
― Donna Leon, The Golden Egg

“involtini”
― Donna Leon, The Golden Egg

“was he trapped in a nest of vipers able to worm themselves into people’s sympathies? Was he another one?”
― Donna Leon, The Golden Egg

“prejudice: so comforting until someone noticed”
― Donna Leon, The Golden Egg

“Detach language from meaning, and the world was yours.”
― Donna Leon, The Golden Egg

“flowed into and from one another, and then on to yet others, all of them tied in some way to the city in which they lived. Though they were Venetian, the conversation took place in Italian”
― Donna Leon, The Golden Egg

“say something like that? The poor boy”
― Donna Leon, The Golden Egg

“Well, he'd gone this far, animated by nothing more noble than curiosity, he told himself as he studied the face of the man in the mirror, pushing his collar down over his neatly knotted tie. The man's mind slipped into English: The cat's got your tongue. Curiosity killed the cat. To stay in vein, the man in the mirror gave a Cheshire smile, and Brunetti left the house.”
― Donna Leon, The Golden Egg

“hostages to fortune.”
― Donna Leon, The Golden Egg

“At one point, Paola expressed a wish and used the subjunctive, and Brunetti felt himself close to tears at the beauty of the intellectual complexity of it: she could speak about what was not, could invent an alternative reality. He”
― Donna Leon, The Golden Egg

“locked his fingers on the arm of his”
― Donna Leon, The Golden Egg