Lucia Triumphant Quotes

“{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells,”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant

“How careless of me!" By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right.”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant

“...[She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite sitting-place) and chanced to be able to remember when she had seen them and where they had been going, it was simply a tribute to her keen powers of observation and recall. Conscious spying was beneath her altogether.”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant

“You mean it's to be peace between you and Elizabeth until after the Tapestry?" cried Georgie, horrified. The prospect of a cessation of hostilities was appalling, for this warfare provided him with the excitement that no other occupation could hope to offer. "Isn't that a bit drastic?”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant

“Georgie paused on the threshold for a moment as if hesitant to enter the habitation of such a perjurer lest it should be struck by lightning.”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant

“Although her hearing was excellent, she had that gift of temporary deafness that is granted to so few.”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant

“As was usual in Tilling, the presence of the Wyses curbed the tongued and improved the manner of those around them...A silence generally fell on the company after Mr. Wyse had finished speaking, his language was so fine, so Augustan that it seemed a pity to defile its memory with effusions in the sugar tongue.”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant

“They were on foot, for the Royce had developed some curious wasting disease and was even more under the spanner.”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant

“As the Athenians to the Pnyx, the antique Romans to the Campus Martius, or our Nordic ancestors to the All-Thing, so the folk of Tilling flocked to the High Street for extempore parliament.”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant

“I should hate to be employed and have no time for my needlework and my painting and playing the piano and seeing people. I find I have little enough spare time as it is." "Rubbish, caro, one can find time for important things if one makes an effort." conversation between Georgie and Lucia”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant

“Most thoughtful,"...[he said] politely. This cheerfulness was ambiguous, Had she determined to ignore ...[the] coup entirely--an established tactic, most irritating to the innovator but hard to sustain over long periods of time--or had she already evolved her counter-strategy?”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant

“Realism without naturalism... is a leading motif in Modern Art. There is a move away from the struggle to perfect the reflection of Nature in Art's mirror, which I attribute to the all-pervading effects of photography...You must serve the tradition without being its slave. Remember you are an artist, not a draughtsman.”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant

“He was ... at peace with the world, for it is not in the praise of others that the true artist revels, but in the knowledge that he has satisfied himself.”
― Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant