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A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9) QUOTES

A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9) QUOTES

1 " The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot staring at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea. "

― Anne Perry , A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9)

2 " Isn’t it a lovely ball?” She looked around at the sea of lace and tulle and silk, the blaze of lights, the laughter and the music and the sway and swirl of movement. “I wish everyone could be as happy as I am. "

― Anne Perry , A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9)

3 " And she was attractive. She had an unusual mixture of innocence and individuality. A man who loved her might waken all kinds of passions in her, and high among them would be loyalty. "

― Anne Perry , A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9)

4 " Time was a peculiarly elastic measurement. It was an empty space, given meaning only by what it contained, and afterwards distorted in memory. "

― Anne Perry , A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9)

5 " Standing in this glittering room with the music in the background and the press and hum of scores of people, the clink of glasses, the faint smells of warmth, champagne, stiff material and sometimes of flowers and perfume, "

― Anne Perry , A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9)

6 " one shouldn’t expect someone else to fill all the expectations in our lives, answer all the loneliness or the dreams, provide us with a social status, a roof over our heads, daily bread, clothes for our backs, and a purpose for living as well, not to mention laughter and hope and love, someone to justify our aspirations and decide our moral judgments. "

― Anne Perry , A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9)

7 " It is a uniquely distressing experience to see yourself only through the eyes of others, too often those you have injured in some way, to know irrefutably what you have done but not why you did it, not the mitigating circumstances, the beliefs you held at the time which made your actions seem reasonable then. "

― Anne Perry , A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9)

8 " He had a high-cheekboned face with steady gray eyes, a broad-bridged aquiline nose and a wide, thin mouth. It was the countenance of a man who was clever, as ruthless with himself as with others, possessed of courage and humor, who hid his weaknesses behind a mask of wit—and sometimes of affected coldness. "

― Anne Perry , A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9)

9 " It isn’t what you feel, it’s what you do that counts. "

― Anne Perry , A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9)

10 " One can wrap the truth in palatable euphemisms for only so long, then it chokes in the throat and the lies suffocate. One ends in hating those who force the deceit by their expectancy, their fear, their cowardice, their sheer lack of understanding of the reality of pain and loss. "

― Anne Perry , A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9)

11 " The sun was barely above the trees and any moment it would disappear. There was a golden haze in the air and it was appreciably colder than even a few minutes before. A cloud of starlings wheeled above a distant stand of poplars, still bare, although in the next garden a willow trailed weeping branches like streamers of pale chiffon. The breeze was so slight it did not even stir them. "

― Anne Perry , A Breach of Promise (William Monk, #9)