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A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy (Inspector Ramsey, #3) QUOTES

A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy (Inspector Ramsey, #3) QUOTES

1 " A young woman doctor had broken the news to her that she had cancer. She had been very gentle, very sympathetic. ‘Sit down, Mrs Bowman,’ she had said. ‘Don’t hold in your feelings. Cry if you want to. It’s bound to be a shock.’ But Mrs Bowman had not felt like crying. The first sensation had been of exhilaration. This is it then, she had thought. It’s all over but I’ve had a good life. She had one son, but for years he had lived in New Zealand. No one would miss her. She had never been one for taking risks and this was the most exciting thing that had ever happened to her. There was something dramatic about being incurably ill and she had expected a sudden change in her condition, then the final adventure of death. She "

― Ann Cleeves , A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy (Inspector Ramsey, #3)