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Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2) QUOTES

Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2) QUOTES

1 " But she thought the men’s brains had turned to jelly. They couldn’t see straight. Faced with a pretty woman they all seemed to lose their reason. "

― Ann Cleeves , Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)

2 " Now it came back in jagged flashes, like the sunlight on the pavements. She thought, This is what it is like to be old. This is how old people remember their childhood. "

― Ann Cleeves , Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)

3 " Mary hadn’t said a word. She’d seemed frozen. It had been as if she were holding her breath. "

― Ann Cleeves , Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)

4 " the unfinished grieving, the foul, flat country. "

― Ann Cleeves , Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)

5 " Outside was the huge winter sky, which made you dizzy just to think of it, inside a small family drama, a soap opera. And she was in the middle. "

― Ann Cleeves , Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)

6 " the light had the clear, sharp quality which comes before rain. "

― Ann Cleeves , Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)

7 " obligation to their parents. She said they don’t ask to be born. The obligation all goes one way. I didn’t see it then but now I think she "

― Ann Cleeves , Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)