At one point, Paola expressed a wish and used the subjunctive, and Brunetti felt himself close to tears at the beauty of the intellectual complexity of it: she could speak about what was not, could in...
The discovery of speed.
Why are other people's prejudices so strange, while our own are so thought-out and reasonable?
When he thought about it, it seemed to Brunetti that what he did when he came here was similar to what a person who was going to experience physical pain—an injection, exposure to sharp cold—did with...
Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will
He remembered enough of his study of logic to recognize a slippery slope when he saw it, even in his own thinking, but still it felt right to suspect that Chiara’s failure to give sympathy might someh...
Brunetti remembered when they found themselves with an excessive catch, they chose to give it away, rather than watch it rot.