Death on a Winter's Day Quotes

“She threw her hands up. 'Honestly, Clifford, it's uncanny how you understand women. I thought confirmed bachelors were supposed to find us a completely unfathomable mystery.”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“Despite her time serving as a nurse during the war and the unnerving number of murders she had become embroiled in, lifeless eyes still made her insides ache with sadness”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“Dash it, Clifford! If you learn to read my mind any better I'm going to have to think indecorous thoughts just to dissuade you from venturing in there”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“Really?' Sir Edward laughed curtly. 'I, for one, wouldn't be seen dead visiting a medical practice that employed women doctors”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“Your staff!? Even with my limited knowledge of how to be a lady of the manor, Clarence' - she ignore Clifford's pointed cough - 'I do at least know staff aren't supposed to dictate things like when their employers have Christmas... Are they?”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“impecuniosity”,”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“brazier”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“augury”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“and stinging, it was soft and gentle. Clifford shook his collar. ‘“Graupels” or “snow hail”, my lady. It’s caused by water freezing onto snowflakes as they fall.”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“Raking over bygones will ne’er make amends.”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“Exhaustion is fatigue's elder brother, sickness be their parents”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day

“His coat-tails swished around the corner of the corridor, leaving her alone. She stared at her reflection and wondered for the hundredth time how her butler managed to be so respectful and yet, at the same time, so disrespectful”
― Verity Bright, Death on a Winter's Day