Cain His Brother Quotes

“Alas, hoist with my own petard.”
― Anne Perry, Cain His Brother

“selfishness in others. It was ugly from every aspect, a spiritual weakness which soured every other virtue. Even courage and honesty were marred by it in the end.”
― Anne Perry, Cain His Brother

“He was also inordinately fond of cats.”
― Anne Perry, Cain His Brother

“ ’E comes and goes,” she said guardedly. “Sometimes ’e’s around fer two or free days, then ’e’ll be gorn again. Mebbe gorn for weeks, mebbe back sooner. I’nt reg”
― Anne Perry, Cain His Brother

“windows and shone in hazy beams across the wooden panels of the walls, the floor and the carved panoply of the judge’s seat.”
― Anne Perry, Cain His Brother

“The raw fog tasted of salt, sewage and the sour water that lies stagnant in fens and pools beyond the tide’s reach. The cold seemed to penetrate the bone.”
― Anne Perry, Cain His Brother

“led through lined and grimy streets down to the river and eastward, as he had expected, towards the Isle of Dogs. A raw wind blew up from the water, carrying the smell of salt, stale fish, the overspill of sewage and the cold dampness of the outgoing tide sweeping down from the Pool of London towards the estuary and the sea. Across the gray water endless strings of barges made their heavy way downstream, laden with merchandise for half the earth. Ships passed them outward bound, down towards the docks of Greenwich and beyond.”
― Anne Perry, Cain His Brother

“Their accents must have been hard for her to follow, and their faces, matted under the grime, were haunted by a permanent wariness, a mixture of anger and fear.”
― Anne Perry, Cain His Brother

“perhaps an inch or two taller than Monk, and extremely handsome. His face was lean and narrow, but with fine, dark eyes, a long nose and a chiseled mouth. Apart from his features, there was a quickness of intelligence in him, lines of wit and laughter around his mouth and a hint of temper between his brows. It was the face of a proud man of unusual charm and, Monk guessed, a considerable ability to command others.”
― Anne Perry, Cain His Brother

“She flushed hot to remember how utterly she had given herself to him in that one consuming kiss. All her heart and mind and will had been in it, all the things she could never ever have said to him.”
― Anne Perry, Cain His Brother