A Question of Belief Quotes

“...when scores of indicted criminals sit in parliament who could believe in the rule of law...”
― Donna Leon, A Question of Belief

“Brunetti found himself suddenly overwhelmed with joy. At peace, heading north, he was surrounded by all he loved and treasured in the world. They were all healthy; they were all safe. For two weeks he could walk in the mountains, eat Speck and strudel, sleep under an eiderdown while the rest of the world broiled, and read to his heart’s content. He looked out the window and saw that the grapevines had been replaced by apple trees.”
― Donna Leon, A Question of Belief

“Underlying it all, and this is what troubled Brunetti, was a sense of despair. He was troubled by the helplessness which so many people felt and their failure to understand what had happened, as if aliens had taken over and imposed this system on them. Governments came and governments went, the Left came and then gave place to the Right, and nothing changed. Though politicians often talked of it and promised it, not one of them gave evidence of having any real desire to change this system which worked so very much to their real purposes. As the boat passed the Piazza, Brunetti saw the crowds,”
― Donna Leon, A Question of Belief

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― Donna Leon, A Question of Belief

“And so it went, the detritus of life ordered and sealed in boxes and nothing to be discarded if it might some time be used or needed again.”
― Donna Leon, A Question of Belief

“I've been thinking that of late - she said. - Thinking what? - That the world of Henry James is becoming very small for me.”
― Donna Leon, A Question of Belief

“A man without a sense of fashion is a man without a soul.”
― Donna Leon, A Question of Belief