Through a Glass, Darkly Quotes

“She believed that books served as a mirror of the person who accumulated them.”
― Donna Leon, Through a Glass, Darkly

“He believed in something for which there seems to be no evidence and for which he appeared to have no proof. I’m not ready to call that crazy.’ He waited to see if Paola would remark that he had just described religious belief, but she was taking no easy shots that evening, it seemed, and said only, ‘But he believed it enough to write down these numbers, whatever they are.”
― Donna Leon, Through a Glass, Darkly

“It had been some time since criminal association or the evidence of criminal behaviour had served as an impediment to political office, and so it was entirely possible that enough of the voting public would be prepared to elect Fasano mayor.”
― Donna Leon, Through a Glass, Darkly

“knew, yet his behaviour had suggested that his information was of”
― Donna Leon, Through a Glass, Darkly

“Her glance put him on the scales and weighed him, and then she said, ‘Less trouble accepting reality, I think.”
― Donna Leon, Through a Glass, Darkly