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The Shifting Tide (William Monk, #14) QUOTES

The Shifting Tide (William Monk, #14) QUOTES

1 " Had he any choice? Can one decide whether to love or not? Yes, probably. One could walk away from life and choose half a life, paralysis of the soul. "

― Anne Perry , The Shifting Tide (William Monk, #14)

2 " There is a fear of immorality and disease in our midst. We don’t like to be reminded of such things so close to home. We feel guilty that it happens while we are perfectly well and comfortable ourselves. Africa is too far away to be our fault. "

― Anne Perry , The Shifting Tide (William Monk, #14)

3 " Monk refused to be ruffled. He glanced around the office at the pictures on the walls. They were not of ships, as he had expected, but were wild landscapes of fierce and alien beauty, stark mountains towering above churning water, or barren as the volcanoes on the moon. “Cape Horn,” Louvain said, following his look. “And Patagonia. I keep them to remind me who I am. Every man should see such places at least once, feel the violence and the enormity of them, hear the noise of wind and water that never stops, and stand on a plain like that, where the silence is never broken. It gives you a sense of proportion. "

― Anne Perry , The Shifting Tide (William Monk, #14)