Literary Quotes

'Very quiet and depressed he's been, ever since he came home. Said the world wasn't fit to live in and there was nothing to look forward to.'

A humdrum, everyday life. And—suddenly—murder.

'I don't fancy he was attached to her anymore. Though I dare say he made the poor woman think he was, for ends of his own.'

'I'm telling you there will be no happiness for you in your new fine house. It's the black sorrow will be upon you! Sorrow and death and my curse.'

Louise's ideas were vague and somewhat melodramatic. Riches prevented you coming into contact with reality.

' . . . I don't suppose anything has ever gone wrong in her whole life. She's always had everything.'

' . . . they have very little to talk about down here, and so I'm afraid they do tend to dwell upon past scandals.'

' . . . it makes one feel quite envious to see someone who has everything like that.'

'I suppose, really, that I'm better . . . but I feel so terribly depressed. I can't help feeling how much better it would have been if I had died . . . Nobody wants me or cares about me.'

It was the beginning of a chapter of catastrophe.

'Very charming manners—courtly—that's the word that describes him best.'

'Perhaps it was better for her to die while life was still happy than it would have been for her to live on, unhappy and disillusioned, in a world that would have seemed suddenly horrible. She loved that scoundrel and trusted him. She never found him out.'

. . . the memory . . . was something to be ruthlessly thrust down and not thought about more than could be helped.