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Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2) QUOTES

Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2) QUOTES

1 " We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid. "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

2 " Detection is not just an exercise of the mind, you know. People are real, and love and hate are dangerous. "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

3 " He had usually found children much less affected by death than adults. And it was a rare child indeed that was not inveterately inquisitive, and would have extracted from the servants every last detail that was to be had, or even invented and embroidered upon. "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

4 " Ask her her opinion of anything, and instead of judging what is appropriate to say, she will tell you what she really thinks. "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

5 " After all, what healthy man, woken in his bed in the morning by a young, clear-skinned, well-rounded wench bending over him, would not be tempted? "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

6 " What was presumed and what was actually known were two entirely different things. "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

7 " The working classes were often the same, give them a chance to idle and they’d take it with both hands. Still, couldn’t blame them entirely. Their life was gray enough. He would have done the same. "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

8 " People do such strange things to cover guilt. We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid. "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

9 " The kind of man one falls in love with is usually entertaining, witty, and handsome; but equally often he has no means to support one, is highly unreliable, "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

10 " Don’t waste your time trying to be reasonable, men do not expect it, and it disconcerts them. "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

11 " am surprised your mother has not given you the same advice.” Christina stared at her. “She has, she has done for years. I pay no attention. One’s mother is always giving one good advice. "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

12 " It’s years since I’ve been shocked, "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

13 " What we do not pay for in some way, unfortunately we tend not to regard in its true worth.” She smiled to soften the words a little. Jemima frowned. “Do you not think sometimes we value a thing merely because we have paid for it?” she asked. “And perhaps paid too much? And so we cling to it, and go on paying? "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

14 " the day mankind learns to profit from the lessons of history I shall look for the Second Coming. "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

15 " Pitt did not interrupt. He seldom interrupted; "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)

16 " A great help, thank you.” Pitt calculated quickly. It must have been after ten, at this time of the year. "

― Anne Perry , Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)