The Last Hours Quotes

“It will be as if we never existed if our history cannot be read.”
― Minette Walters, The Last Hours

“We see death coming into our midst like black smoke, a plague which cuts off the young, a rootless phantom which has no mercy or fair countenance. It is seething, terrible, wherever it may come, a head that gives pain and causes a loud cry, a burden carried under the arms, a painful angry knob, a lump. It is an ugly eruption that comes with unseemly haste. The early ornament of a Black Death. —Jeuan Gethin (d. 1349)”
― Minette Walters, The Last Hours

“A clever person sets his own path in life and travels forward. A man who wastes his life on vengeance stands still.”
― Minette Walters, The Last Hours

“Say what is in your heart, sir, but do not fear God’s judgment. He created you in love, not hate or anger.”
― Minette Walters, The Last Hours

“A wise man lives for today and faces tomorrow when it comes.”
― Minette Walters, The Last Hours

“Don’t sour your heart with hatred, Anne. Show love to those who need it, for you can be sure it will be returned to you a thousandfold.”
― Minette Walters, The Last Hours

“The cleverer a woman was, the more she had to pretend she wasn’t to a man of lesser intellect who owned her as surely as any other piece of property.”
― Minette Walters, The Last Hours

“Quiet the mind and the body will heal itself, Mother Maria had always said.”
― Minette Walters, The Last Hours

“Milady had said many times that superstition was the enemy of reason. God gave men brains for a purpose, and only the wilfully ignorant refused to use them.”
― Minette Walters, The Last Hours