Fatal Remedies Quotes

“a line from Donizetti’s Anna Bolena flashed through his memory—‘If those who judge me are those who have already condemned me, I have no chance.”
― Donna Leon, Fatal Remedies

“Brunetti was struck, as he had been frequently and strongly in recent years, by the absence of talk about politics. He wasn’t sure if no one cared any more or if the subject had simply become too inflammable to permit strangers to attempt it. Regardless of the cause, it had joined religion in some sort of conversational”
― Donna Leon, Fatal Remedies

“He nodded. If she had acted alone, then it must have been someone inflamed or encouraged by the press handling of the case. God, we were becoming just like America, where the police go in fear of copy-cat killers, where the mere mention of a crime is enough to encourage imitation. ‘I’m going in,’ he said. ‘I don’t know when I’ll be back.”
― Donna Leon, Fatal Remedies

“Brunetti nodded in what he thought was a very priestlike way. He sometimes believed that a person in Italy could be excused any horror, any enormity, simply by saying that it was done for tax reasons. Wipe out your family, shoot your dog, burn down the neighbour’s house: so long as you said you did it for tax reasons, no judge, no jury, would convict.”
― Donna Leon, Fatal Remedies

“There are days when I think everything’s getting worse, then there are days when I know they are. But then the sun comes out and I change my mind.”
― Donna Leon, Fatal Remedies

“about the insurance and he felt his face grow red again. He’d reacted like a child with a new toy, running off at the first impulse, not pausing long enough to reflect or to check the information they did have available to them. He knew it was by now standard policy to suspect the spouse in any case of suspicious death, but he should have trusted his instinct about”
― Donna Leon, Fatal Remedies

“ufficio catasto,”
― Donna Leon, Fatal Remedies