An Incomplete Revenge Quotes
"Even though the rent on her studio close to the Albert Hall was cheap enough due to an ancient land law that provided for artists, her commissions had diminished and she was forced to look for additional income."
"Her students were a motley group and definitely better off; the working classes could barely afford to eat, let alone spend money on frivolities."
"The woman had explained that she had recently been exposed to the world of art—she said it as if it were an unfamiliar country—and that she wanted to do 'something artistic,' as her work was far removed from such indulgence."
"It’s rather like my work," she had said. "And when Marta asked about the woman’s profession, she paused for a moment and then drew out a card, which she offered to the artist. It said, simply: MAISIE DOBBS PSYCHOLOGIST AND INVESTIGATOR."
"Maisie thought that this one evening each week was the woman’s only recreation, but with each class, something about her seemed to change almost imperceptibly."
"James Compton looked up, frowning, then smiled, his eyes crinkling at the corners when he saw Maisie waving from the other side of the road."
"Maisie regarded her hands, then reached into her shoulder bag and brought out her gloves. 'It’s dye. I couldn’t get it out of my hands and should have put on my gloves immediately.'"
"You seem lighter within yourself, as our Mrs. Crawford would have said."
"Maisie breathed a sigh of relief. Business was still ticking along but wasn’t as brisk as it had been."
"She checked her watch, marked the file of notes that now rested on her lap, and made ready to go to bed."
"Since the war we seem to have been overrun with young ruffians, and they need to be taught a lesson!"
"I’ll see that they are punished to the full extent of the law. Let this be a lesson to others bent on delinquency!"
"As much as I would have liked to be called Tricia for short instead of Beattie, the middle initial ensured my fate. Call me Beattie."
"I am absolutely starving. Not taken a moment for a cuppa all morning."
"It could be the petty crime that’s been going on there for some years now—probably ten years."
"Forgive them; for they know not what they do." – Luke 23:34
"I wouldn’t mind betting them Londoners—or the gypsies—have been up to some mischief over the years."
"I know what it means to her, being able to hold the litt’lun every now and again, but you never know what people might think."
"It doesn’t take money to use imagination, Billy."
"It’s war itself that I have an opinion about, not the origin of those who fight."
"I suppose I should call you Miss Dobbs and be very proper."
"The nights are beginning to blow up a bit chilly."
"He knew the farmers, made it his business to know about farming."
"I don’t know whether to bang their heads together or just pull them out of here."
"It’s a wonder he could get up on that horse."
"Hold on to time, like that, and you stay in time."
"No one speaks my language, so I have to speak everyone else’s if I want to be understood."
"Sometimes it’s like the morning hate when we come out to work."
"You've been very kind and incredibly helpful, Beattie."
"Well, this will never get the eggs cooked, will it?"
"I forgot to put it on today. I’ll have to use the sun as a timepiece."
"If you want to find silver, you have to think silver."
"No. Really see yourself at one of the big newspapers. Think silver, Beattie."
"We’re not a big town, just a small village, and look at how many we lost, boys and men born here, who worked here and would have died here, at home."
"Instead of feeling heartache, all you are is filled with temper."
"It’s a busy time of year. People are working in the fields all day—if not in the hop-gardens there’s often a second threshing of the hay, then the apples and pears, and that season follows the picking of summer fruit, strawberries, cherries, blackcurrants—so workers are tired, they ache from the day’s labor, and they make mistakes."
"No one in the village has the convenience of electricity, my dear."
"They are very close-knit, as you have no doubt discovered. It is a blessing that no one has been hurt."
"The love that asks no question, the love that stands the test, That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best."
"The love that never falters, the love that pays the price, The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice."
"We all help each other in Heronsdene, you can depend on that."
"I can’t believe it was just this morning. So much has happened."
"Revenge can only take more lives, and this life of mine is too precious for me to give it over to vengeance."
"This business of forgiving yourselves is your work."
"I have learned, I hope, that revenge can only take more lives, and this life of mine—my wife, my daughter—is too precious for me to give it over to vengeance."
"I understood revenge. And I understood that if that was what they had wanted—revenge—then the job was left half done, because I was still alive."
"I can’t help you with your shame, your remorse, but I can make one small suggestion."
"I thought I would be able to take the life of every one of them, make them feel what my family felt. But I must have seen too much killing in France. All I could do was scare them."
"And it was time. They know about Pim now—well, they’ve likely known all along, if truth be told, but now they have proof. And they know the piper must be paid."
"You, of all people, should know what Alfred Sandermere is like. The whole village knows what he’s like."
"We’ll never get over it, never. We’ll bear that cross, all of us, forever, and there’s not one of us that goes to bed at night and doesn’t hear the screams."
"It’s not as if anyone would ever listen to him, as a rule. Not as if he was respected, like his brother, Henry, and his father before him."
"She was the devil himself that night. It was as if all the terrible things you ever thought in your life had made lunatics of us, and we could not stop."
"We were all talking, about the boys, about the war and the Germans, when we heard that drone. It was strange, a sort of muffled whirring."
"And then they saw us coming, with Sandermere shouting, 'There they are, Fritz and his wife!' And Jacob put his arm around Bettin and ran back to the bakery."
"It was madness. We were all touched by madness and didn’t know what we were doing."
"And we let a drunken boy lead us, with his filthy ideas and his taunting, until we believed we had to make the enemy suffer, for our sons and for our village."
"The next day, we all saw the truth of what we’d done. It’s been like a sickness ever since."
"And we believed we were being haunted, that the spirit of Pim Martin had come home to drive us into our graves, had come for his due."
"But it was as if we’d been struck by madness. We weren’t ordinary people anymore, we were one big monster, an animal out of control going after the enemy, who had to pay."