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I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.
Donna Leon -
This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner?
Donna Leon
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And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.
Donna Leon -
I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.
Donna Leon -
Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.
Donna Leon -
I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
Donna Leon -
There has been a lot of suspicious, maybe hazing, deaths in the last couple of years-in the last five or six years.
Donna Leon -
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
Donna Leon
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I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
Donna Leon -
We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them. ... Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.
Donna Leon -
Favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.
Donna Leon