Heartstones Quotes

“Her mind that I have never claimed to read must be a place where slimy things swim and jostle pale eyed as in some subterranean sink.”
― Ruth Rendell, Heartstones

“Subjects under discussion droned about me swooped and twittered like birds of passage and birds of prey.”
― Ruth Rendell, Heartstones

“It was as if my soul had become one of those limestone figures on the west front of our cathedral and some restorer, incompetent at his craft, was chipping away at it with a sharp tool flaying its surface and splintering off those soft perceptive parts so that at last only a plain featureless nothing would remain.”
― Ruth Rendell, Heartstones

“He allowed the doors of his mind to burst open and me to read what lay within. It was so clear that I wonder all those present did not read it. The passions and unwise desires blazoned in fiery letters.”
― Ruth Rendell, Heartstones