A Three Dog Problem Quotes

“It seemed as if the very foundations of democracy were being undermined in ways she hadn't seen since the war, which was longer than many of her subjects' lifetimes. Like everyone else, she felt they were all on the brink of something they didn't fully understand, grasping around to hold on to whatever they believed, praying that it would stand.”
― S.J. Bennett, A Three Dog Problem

“She saw herself. And the image of her sun-bronzed husband heading for her across the water, beaming. These were the memories that made the rest of it possible. What could be more precious than that?”
― S.J. Bennett, A Three Dog Problem

“He had captured something very few artists managed, which was a sense that she was reflecting on more than the act of being captured on canvas, or being queen. In fact, she was rarely thinking about either. There was so much to absorb her attention. She was glad that future generations might get a glimpse of her actively contemplating a world beyond one's own.”
― S.J. Bennett, A Three Dog Problem

“. . . that the light and shadow on the faces was very clever, and the women were beautiful but also interesting, like real women - the ones she knew. People with complicated interior lives, caught in the moment. They had been quite lovely.”
― S.J. Bennett, A Three Dog Problem

“She sensed they shared something that neither found very often in other people. A love of art and music and beautiful things, yes, but she knew loads of friends who had that, too. It was something about this art, this> music, these things. And it wasn't in any way sexual or crude, as Lulu Arantes had suggested. She felt perfectly safe with him.”
― S.J. Bennett, A Three Dog Problem

“My dear, you can't afford it. A candle called Ernesto. It's supposed to remind one of the cigar smoke of revolutionaries. I've always adored it.”
― S.J. Bennett, A Three Dog Problem