Edinburgh Twilight Quotes

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit,’ sir.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Sheets of sleet hurtled themselves against the windows, clattering like the tapping of devilish fingers upon the glass.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“everything else fell away,”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“My face had a disagreement with a fist about occupying the same space. The fist had the upper hand.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“I had occasion to test the law of gravity. I am happy to report it is intact.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Flattery is the province of fools—those who give it and those who believe it.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“it weren’t for bad luck, he’d have no luck at all, and all that.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“in real life, monsters weren’t always vanquished, and heroes didn’t always win.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“but it didn’t make up for the indignity inflicted by the careless arrogance of the young.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Oh, there was so much evil in a man . . .”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Oh, there was so much evil in a man . . . CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires,”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“There’s some who believe it’s wicked, but God made us all, and if there’s some he made a little different, I daresay he had a reason for it.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“The power of the human mind is a wondrous thing. Even now, we can only begin to imagine what it is capable of.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Why was it so easy for a dumb animal to find peace and happiness in this world, while human beings created wars so they could hack at one another, spending untold hours thinking up new ways to inflict harm?”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Suspicion is a heavy armor—’” “‘And with its weight it impedes more than it protects.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“the world is full of evil wretches who seek nothing but their own self-gratification, and they don’t give a damn whom they hurt in the process.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Ian’s discomfort was followed by a memory of a conversation he once had with Aunt Lillian about the indignities she had suffered as a young woman from the attention of men. He had not until this moment considered what it must have actually felt like.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“I say, Rodney, there’s one of your typical Scottish ‘raggediers’ now.” His accent was British, exaggeratedly well-bred.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight

“Ah, yes, my—partners.” “Misters Wickham and Clyde?” Eugene Harley Esq. cleared his throat. “They don’t exist—or rather, not as human beings.” “I beg your pardon?” “Those are the names of my cats.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Twilight