The Silver Swan Quotes

“culchie.”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“Billy Bunter”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“louche”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“He would have found it hard to like this unnervingly self-contained young man, if liking was what was required, and happily it was not.”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“hot breeze blew against his face, bearing a dusty mix of smells, the exhausted breath of summer.”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“Phoebe found her amusing, and valiant in her way, and not entirely ridiculous.”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“soughed,”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“felo de se”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“discomfited.”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“making the fallen sycamore leaves scuttle along the pavements like big, withered hands.”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“The day was at an end and the sea was lacquered with streaks of sapphire and leek green and lavender gray under a violet dome of sky.”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“The years at Carricklea had left him with a lurking fear of all appointed figures of authority that no subsequent accumulation of authority of his own could rid him of.”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“Every time Quirke saw Mal nowadays his brother-in-law seemed a little more dry and dusty, as if an essential fluid was leaking out of him, steadily, invisibly. He leaned”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“He preferred his own judgments and, if the truth were told, his own company, too. That was how he had always been, even as a boy, always by himself, stravaging the fields or the back streets of the Midlands town where he was born, looking for something and never knowing what, hoping to chance on something, anything at all, that would interest or amuse him.”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“She could see and smell and touch and hear, but somehow she could hardly feel at”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“So he lay there, desperate as a beetle fallen on its back, trying not to think of all the things he did not want to think of, as the dawn sifted into the room like a radiant gray dust.”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“four o’clock the daylight was already curling insidious fingers round the edges of the curtains in his bedroom. He”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“Humans build square, Quirke thought, nature in the round.”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“Physically, too, he had faded, his features become indistinct, as if a fine sifting of dust had settled uniformly over him.”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan

“Hunt’s wife, after all, had died in questionable circumstances,”
― Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan: Quirke Mysteries Book 2