A Darkly Shining Star Quotes

“We certainly can’t call him up on Boxing Day,”
― M.S. Morris, A Darkly Shining Star

“Back in the car, Bridget noticed that Jake seemed unusually quiet. He’d hardly said a word during the interview with Julia Carstairs, and it was perhaps unsurprising, given the way that she’d embarrassed him. ‘What is it with these older women?’ he said at last. ‘I wish they’d act their age. I can’t understand why they’re all so desperate.’ ‘I think you’ll find that they’re lonely,’ she said. ‘It must be hard to reach a point where the best of your life seems to be behind you, and you find yourself alone, especially at Christmas.”
― M.S. Morris, A Darkly Shining Star

“The flashing blue lights of the response cars in the street beyond leached any residual warmth away from the yellow Cotswold stone of the buildings,”
― M.S. Morris, A Darkly Shining Star