Dressed for Death Quotes

“How beautiful, the grace of women; how soft their charity.”
― Donna Leon, Dressed for Death

“Once, walking with him, Paola had stopped and asked him what he was thinking about, and the fact that she was the only person in the world he would not be embarrassed to tell just what it was he had been thinking about at that moment convinced him, though a thousand things had already done so, that this was the woman he wanted to marry, had to marry, would marry.”
― Donna Leon, Dressed for Death

“Brunetti took one of the peaches and began to peel it with his knife and fork.”
― Donna Leon, Dressed for Death

“marmoreal”
― Donna Leon, Dressed for Death

“I’m worried about any group that assumes its own superiority, in any way, to other people.”
― Donna Leon, Dressed for Death

“There was no breeze, not the slightest current; the day lay like a filthy blanket upon the city.”
― Donna Leon, Dressed for Death

“It's the Lord who is kind, Dottore. We merely do His service.”
― Donna Leon, Dressed for Death

“When he thought about it, it seemed to Brunetti that what he did when he came here was similar to what a person who was going to experience physical pain—an injection, exposure to sharp cold—did with his body: he tensed his muscles and concentrated, to the exclusion of all other sensation, on resisting that anticipated pain. But, instead of tightening his muscles, Brunetti found himself, if such a thing could be said to be, tightening his soul.”
― Donna Leon, Dressed for Death

“am, as an English poet says in an entirely different context, ‘as free as the road, as loose as the wind.’” Brunetti”
― Donna Leon, Dressed for Death