He hesitated then, anticipating the panic that came when there was nothing left to read
Patta’s expression seemed cordial enough, though from past experience Brunetti knew this was meaningless: vipers liked to bask on rocks in the sunshine, did they not?
Life had taught him to be profoundly suspicious of coincidence, and it had similarly taught him to view any seemingly random conjunction of events or persons as coincidence and thus be suspicious of t...
I raised my hand and asked if God was a spirit. And he said yes, He was. So I asked if it was right that a spirit was different from a person because it didn't have a body, wasn't material. And when h...
I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almo...
Love trumped principle. Paola tossed out these things
The warmth and smell he associated with
The discovery of speed.
South.`But no name?,'No, Guido. But I'll keep
I read books, not minds, Guido.
A man without a sense of fashion is a man without a soul.
If you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think about is cigarettes. It seems logical enough to me that if you tell a person he can't h...
Hard on a curve and lost control of the
Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.
Knew, yet his behaviour had suggested that his information was of
Where does American money come from? Steel. Railways. You know how it is over there. It doesn’t matter if you murder or rob to get it. The trick is in keeping it for a hundred years, and then you’re a...
Brunetti didn’t like knowing that she was right.
And will knowing what she reads make you know who she is?Can you think of a better way to tell?
Patta would have fallen upon these details as a beast upon prey and torn into them in an attempt to find nourishment.
And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.