L.R. Wright > Quotes

“His body had become horrified, garrulous commentator on calamity.”
― L.R. Wright, The Suspect

“When the day of her retirement arrived perhaps she would divest herself of such things and live the months that remained to her only according to the light in the sky.”
― L.R. Wright, Acts of Murder

“It’s a good thing, in the main—responsibility. But I’ve a feeling, now, that you can carry it too far, or get it all wrong.”
― L.R. Wright, The Suspect

“The point is, though, he told himself, you killed somebody, and you can’t remain unpunished.

He sat very still, thinking about it. It was perfectly true. But it wasn’t all there was to say about the situation. It wasn’t as though he was a danger to anybody, sitting here free. He probably wouldn’t live long enough to get to trial anyway, the way they dragged those things out.

Yet he knew he was rationalizing. The plain truth was that he didn’t want to make a public spectacle of himself, and he didn’t want to go to jail. They’d catch him eventually; that pale-haired Mountie would catch him for sure, somehow. There was no need to force upon himself today something that was going to happen anyway, in the impartial fullness of time.”
― L.R. Wright, The Suspect

“It occurred to him that she was there for the duration.”
― L.R. Wright, The Suspect

“Books are my work, my comfort, and my joy.”
― L.R. Wright, The Suspect

“there was something different about the light in southwestern Alberta. More than mere illumination, it had substance and texture. It existed in and of itself, as tangible as if it had taste and fragrance.”
― L.R. Wright, Mother Love