A Question of Inheritance Quotes

“Reading novels is one of the ways we come to understand our humanity.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Question of Inheritance

“Georgia, talking out of the side of her mouth in a way she’d copied from a gangster film, said, ‘I’ll show you later.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Question of Inheritance

“Horses were supposed to be herd creatures, but Last Hurrah had never heard that rule.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Question of Inheritance

“There must have been some streak of romanticism in him, a feeling that he was going to be a Bulldog Drummond”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Question of Inheritance

“For three weeks, Hugo had been following the trail of a man whose failure to succeed in his pre-war missions was, he was now fairly certain, due to nothing more than an extraordinary degree of incompetence.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Question of Inheritance

“extraordinary. Mrs Clutton could probably do his job better than he did, he reflected, as he opened the first of the files.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Question of Inheritance

“was”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Question of Inheritance

“Thirteen.”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Question of Inheritance

“potions and lotions,”
― Elizabeth Edmondson, A Question of Inheritance