An Unfortunate End Quotes

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― Lisa Zumpano, An Unfortunate End

“New Scotland Yard was teeming with overworked detectives and efficient clerical secretaries dressed in the same muted drab colours of the interior walls.”
― Lisa Zumpano, An Unfortunate End

“The air was thick with coal dust and the creeping damp diffused itself throughout the filthy streets leaving a slick, toxic slime in its wake.”
― Lisa Zumpano, An Unfortunate End

“not really one for reminiscing…memories, you see, are the province of old women and priests.”
― Lisa Zumpano, An Unfortunate End

“Marriage is the most sacred of institutions—but it can be the most gut wrenching, lonely, painful place in the world. It is a stifling barren landscape hindering our dreams and aspirations and laying waste to all we hold dear.”
― Lisa Zumpano, An Unfortunate End

“If we can get the Constabulary to reopen the case out of sheer humiliation it is more likely to be solved by them than by us poking around like a couple of bungling sleuths in a Doyle novel.”
― Lisa Zumpano, An Unfortunate End

“IF THE WIND WERE BLOWING JUST right off the Hudson river, New York mornings would sometimes smell of freshly baked bread and strong coffee.”
― Lisa Zumpano, An Unfortunate End