17 Quotes by Rose Lerner

She was the kind of art that was so valuable it wasn't even for sale, and she smiled when she saw Ash. His pulse jumped.

People say things die in winter, but it isn’t true, mostly. They just gather their strength.

I don’t mean to sound puffed up, but I think – I believe, anyway, that there were boys who might have wanted to court me if I’d given them any encouragement. But I was shy, and none of them seemed to have so great an advantage over books as to be worth the effort.

She set aside the Lively St. Lemeston Intelligencer with a sigh and picked up the Times. “No murders in Sussex this week.” Every Tuesday, when the town newspaper came out, they met at the Makepeaces’ coffeehouse to go through all the week’s papers for interesting crimes.

The human heart is like a big mess of embroidery silks, and the more you pull, the more they tangle. The thing is, the threads have only got one end, if that. You can’t sort them all out into colors. You just pick the ones you want and hold one to them as best you can.

The people in this town are a regular Greek chorus, only with less Christian charity.

Secrets are my profession. I know them inside and out. What separates me from someone I’m lying to isn’t the lie. It’s that I know I’m lying. It’s a pane of glass – they can’t see it, but I don’t forget it’s there.

It’s the worst sort of snobbery to condemn a book without reading it, merely because it’s popular.