Rainbow's End Quotes

“Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around deadlines. She set these various dates, she'd told him, to fool herself.”
― Martha Grimes, Rainbow's End

“Macalvie, that was an incredibly lachrymose question.”
― Martha Grimes, Rainbow's End

“Melrose, smiling brightly at the butcher.”
― Martha Grimes, Rainbow's End

“Love was rather terrifying. Something so hard to find should not be so easily lost.”
― Martha Grimes, Rainbow's End

“Having little to do with the present, Mr. Beaton had plenty of room for the past. Oh, yes, he read the papers and knew that governments came and went ("Conservative, Labor, Sociopath," Mr. Beaton would chuckle), but that made no odds to him.”
― Martha Grimes, Rainbow's End