The Shivering Sands Quotes

“I finished the sonata and to my surprise the next piece was Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre, an unusual choice I thought. I began to play. I thought of Pietro who had always brought something indescribably spine-chilling into the playing of this piece. He said that when he played it, he saw the musician as a kind of pied piper who, instead of luring children into the mountain side, brought people out of their graves to dance round the piper…in the dance of death.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shivering Sands

“I have my flights of fancy. You and I are like those ships. We are caught in the shivering sands of the past. We shall never escape because we are held fast, held by our memories and other people’s opinions of us.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shivering Sands

“I wonder why they always wanted to frighten people away. People who want to frighten others are very often frightened themselves.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shivering Sands