Pucetti’s was the generation that was all in favour of sentiment, sharing other people’s pain, voicing compassion for the downtrodden, yet Brunetti often found in them traces of a ruthlessness that ch...
Only the good deserve to hope.
Italian to the core, he did not for an instant doubt that a man could be passionately devoted to the wife he betrayed with other women.
In any other city in Italy, the fact that no one had seen or heard anything would be no more than an indication of their distrust of the police and a general unwillingness to help them. Here, however,...
Fragolino,
Brunetti had long been of the opinion that one of the handicaps of stupidity was its inability to imagine intelligence.
Brunetti asked, surprised how painful he still found the thought of his mother. He had tried for the last year, with singular lack of success, to tell himself that his mother, that bright-spirited wom...
And the sight
A wife is her husband’s richest treasure, a helpmeet, a steadying column. A vineyard with no hedge will be overrun; a man with no wife becomes a helpless wanderer,’ he quoted,
Locked his fingers on the arm of his
A woman whom the course of years had turned sour and to whom the vows meant poverty of spirit, chastity of humour, and obedience only to some rigorous concept of duty.
Why bother to put the boy who broke into a house in jail when the man who stole billions from the health system is named ambassador to the country to which he had been sending the money for years?
She believed that books served as a mirror of the person who accumulated them.
Roberta Marieschi
People don’t change,’ she answered, voicing the wisdom Neapolitans had learned over centuries. ‘If they suffer enough, they do,’ Brunetti said, then quickly amended it to ‘or can.’ Brunetti’s
Nor has the extent of your prosperity produced any change in you, except that it has given you the power of doing good to the utmost of your wishes. And whilst all these circumstances increase the ven...
I’ve always liked it about the Greeks that they kept the violence off the stage.
If you work with only your body, all you'll do is work for enough to eat.
For reasons he had never understood, she read a different newspaper each morning, spanning the political spectrum from right to left, and languages from French to English. Years ago, when he had first...
Brunetti shrugged. They believed him to be a member of the community of scholars...'Community of Scholars, she repeated , It would make the chickens laugh