Quotes from Donna Leon

He realized how primitive this feeling was but, as a friend of his father had often said, he had only one head, so he had only one way to think about things.

And the sight

The old die softly or the old die hard

There was no vanity here, only the calm acceptance of her own worth and of her own talent, and he knew enough about her past to realize how hard that must have been to achieve.

about the insurance and he felt his face grow red again. He'd reacted like a child with a new toy, running off at the first impulse, not pausing long enough to reflect or to check the information they did have available to them. He knew it was by now standard policy to suspect the spouse in any case of suspicious death, but he should have trusted his instinct about

She lengthened her stride, aware at every step of how long she'd been sitting at a desk and how much her body rejoiced in this simple act of walking on the beach in the sun.

Chiara," he said, speaking very softly, "your mother is a troublemaker, a malcontent, and an agitator.