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Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5) QUOTES

Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5) QUOTES

1 " We women have been taught since birth that virtue is our greatest asset. I have nothing against virtues—I’d like to think that there are many virtues I practice assiduously. But power does not yield to virtue. Power yields only to power. "

― Sherry Thomas , Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5)

2 " There was so much that he didn’t know, so much that she didn’t feel that she could tell him. So much she’d never told him because she understood him better than he’d understood himself. He had always wanted to give her everything. But it had been an everything that revolved around him. "

― Sherry Thomas , Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5)

3 " Some men’s deaths left little besides unfulfilled obligations and the inconvenience of a corpse. "

― Sherry Thomas , Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5)

4 " Some men’s deaths left little besides unfulfilled obligations and the inconvenience of a corpse. The departure of others tore holes in the hearts of those who were fortunate enough to know them. "

― Sherry Thomas , Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5)

5 " She had managed to get to the truth of the matter in every case that had been entrusted to her. But truth had a vicious way of upsetting everything else on its way to the surface. And he was hard-pressed to say, as someone whose existence had been repeatedly convulsed by recent overdoses of truth, whether there had been anything satisfactory to the aftermaths. "

― Sherry Thomas , Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5)