Unto Us a Son Is Given
Donna Leon
Top 10 Best Quotes
“They hadn't lived long enough to understand what grace it was to die in an instant and not to linger.”
“we choose to love people despite their flaws and weaknesses. We train ourselves to overlook or ignore them; sometimes these failures of character even fill us with a special kind of tenderness that has nothing whatsoever in it of a sense of superiority. Like bombs, these flaws tick quietly through our lives, and theirs, until we learn to ignore them, and then forget them. Until some unlikely impossibility causes them to explode, when finally we recognize how dangerous these people are and have been all along.”
“he involved in the bankruptcy of that plastics factory? Ten years ago? Fifteen?’ Of course, that was where Brunetti had read the name: the factory up near”
“Yes, I was just thinking.’ ‘About what?’ ‘About how a writer can make the most awful things…’ Brunetti didn’t want to say ‘beautiful’, but that was what he meant. ‘Can make them powerful,’ he chose instead. It wasn’t the same, but it was also true. She surprised him by saying, ‘I’ve never understood why you studied law.’ She picked up her coffee and took a sip. ‘I’m not sure I do either.’ ‘Do you regret it?’ He shook his head. ‘No, the law is beautiful. It’s like building a cathedral.’ ‘You’ve lost me,’ Paola said with a smile.”
“What fools men are to raze a city, destroying tombs, and temples, and sacred places, when they are so soon to die themselves.”
“We train ourselves to overlook or ignore them; sometimes these failures of character even fill us with a special kind of tenderness that has nothing whatsoever in it of a sense of superiority.”
“Patta would have fallen upon these details as a beast upon prey and torn into them in an attempt to find nourishment.”
“It would be nice if we could choose the people we love, but love chooses them.”
“Intellectuals”?’ Brunetti repeated. ‘I think it’s more true to say they’re the cartographers of the Flat Earth Society”
“He heard footsteps coming from the kitchen and turned to see his wife approaching. In that instant he wanted to take some sort of emotional photograph so that he could, sometime in the future when things were different, pull it out of his memory and look at it and say, ‘I’ve lived a happy life’.”
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Book Keywords:
love, law, writer, life-lessons, happy-life, power-of-words, memory, death-and-dying, life, wife
