Edinburgh Dusk Quotes

“Why did you not tell me this earlier?” “Because you never asked. I was waiting to be questioned, but apparently your aversion to me”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“I don’t have to trust my instructors—I just have to learn from them.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“devastating effects.” This personal revelation from a man he had just met made”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“You don’t seem very drawn to women yourself,” Ian said, smearing a chunk of bread liberally with butter. “Ah, but I like them. I just don’t have any use for them.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“Stronger men than he had collapsed beneath life’s unpredictable sorrows. He could not look to others for his salvation; other people were unreliable, changeable. He could only count upon his own resources, his own courage, his own need for truth.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“Work was the antidote—to faithless friends, determined killers, and a society more bent upon revenge than justice. It was something that could be done, whereas all one could do with life’s slings and arrows was to bear them, bravely or not.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“Grief was a strange companion. At first it had hit hard and strong, like a blast of frigid wind, a shuddering blow that left no air in his body. Then it subsided for a while, rising up from time to time like an adder, coiled and poised to sink its teeth into the flesh of its victim. Ian had tried outrunning it, then fighting it, but quickly found the best thing was to lie still and let it crash over him like a wave.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“He realized this character trait, like most, cut both ways, and could be a virtue or a flaw, depending on the circumstances. At the moment, he felt it made him rather callous.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk

“He realized this character trait, like most, cut both ways, and could be a virtue or a flaw, depending on the circumstances.”
― Carole Lawrence, Edinburgh Dusk