The Waters of Eternal Youth Quotes

“Why are other people's prejudices so strange, while our own are so thought-out and reasonable?”
― Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth

“Women don’t use knives,’ Griffoni answered, reciting it as though she were Euclid listing another axiom. Although he agreed with her, Brunetti was curious about the basis for her belief. ‘You offering proof of that?’ ‘Kitchens,’ she said laconically. ‘Kitchens?’ ‘The knives are kept in the kitchen, and their husbands pass through there every day, countless times, yet very few of them get stabbed. That’s because women don’t use knives, and they don’t stab people.”
― Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth

“As if sensing his attention, Paola turned her head towards him and allowed her eyes to close and then open slowly, as though she’d been told that the Crucifixion had only just begun and there still remained a number of nails. The”
― Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth

“Is this what retirement would be for him? he wondered. Sticking his nose into other people’s business whenever he had the feeling that something wasn’t consistent in a story? Must every death come in a tidy package before ex-Commissario Brunetti would leave it alone and let people get on with their lives?”
― Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth

“logic, that’s the appeal to fear. Make people afraid of something and you can make them do what you want.”
― Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth

“with renewing his offer of”
― Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth

“belief that heresy was a form of intellectual stubbornness, the refusal to abandon a mistaken idea. In”
― Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth

“love trumped principle. Paola tossed out these things”
― Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth

“Torri and”
― Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth

“She stood motionless like that for”
― Donna Leon, The Waters of Eternal Youth