24 Quotes by Ruth Downie

Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife

[regarding the sacrifice] It was all very professionally done, even to a man whose religion consisted mostly of half formed and unanswered questions, it was strangely reassuring.

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump.

Sparrows and pigeons and a blackbird were celebrating the morning in the courtyard.

...a little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.

It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.

Britannia's big enough to count, but remote enough not to matter.

I seem to remember sitting on a golden bench, and she started chattering about the sunset, or something. She seemed quite happy so I let her get on with it. Then she got hold of my hand and asked me what I was thinking about. So I said, "The treatment of anal fistulae".