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Payment in Blood (Inspector Lynley, #2)

by Elizabeth George (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 07, 2011 03:15PM

“We have come to live among specters, Sara tells herself. They are not people, but silhouettes sketched on a backdrop to deceive us into thinking that the stage is crowded. She searches for an expression, any expression, in their eyes - the eyes of that man on the corner whose raised hand holds a cigarette he is allowing to burn to his fingers; the eyes of that woman who has lifted a dripping jar of water halfway to her head. They will never speak to me, she thinks. I will never know their names.”
― Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra

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“They have not considered that memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.”
― Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra

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“It is something they will see everywhere - a disregard for danger, a companionship with death. By the end of a year they will know it well: the antic bravado, the fatal games, the coffin shop beside the cantina, the sugar skulls on the frosted cake.”
― Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra

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