Death of a Nurse Quotes

“I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks: And when I’m introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun! —Sir Walter A. Raleigh”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Nurse

“The breeze sent sunny ripples dancing across the sea loch. The village of Lochdubh in Sutherland looked like a picture postcard with its row of small eighteenth-century whitewashed cottages facing the sea loch. Hamish was leaning on the seawall, thinking dark thoughts about getting Charlie transferred back to Strathbane, that ghastly town full of drugs and crime.”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Nurse

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Nurse

“A rowan tree outside the café tossed its bare branches up as if pleading with the menacing sky.”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Nurse

“Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world —Shakespeare”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Nurse

“I mean, that’s the creepy thing about Sutherland when you’re out on your own under the stars. You feel like an intruder. But the birds belong.”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Nurse