Venetian Vespers Quotes

“became aware that a particular and definite presence”
― John Banville, Venetian Vespers

“Sitting there puce of face and half choking on a gob of pastry”
― John Banville, Venetian Vespers

“in Battersea, the old, dark longing to know how it would feel to be purchased myself, purchased and ravaged and left splayed upon a bed, clutching a handful of coins to my breast and listening to the tread of my heedless abuser as he made his way off into the night. —”
― John Banville, Venetian Vespers