David Penny > Quotes

“love is boundless. Love is the ocean. Take one thimbleful from it and an infinite amount remains.”
― David Penny, The Red Hill

“He wondered how long before she went to work for the King and Queen she had created it.”
― David Penny, A Death of Promise

“better to know them than face the consequences of ignorance.”
― David Penny, The Hidden Dead

“folded Amal’s dress as neatly as he could, which was not very neat,”
― David Penny, Men of Bone

“We learn nothing if we think we already know everything.”
― David Penny, The Hidden Dead

“asked, looking around the room. He expected another substitute,”
― David Penny, A Death of Promise

“First love might taste sweet on the tongue of memory but could prove rancid when the bottle was opened years later.”
― David Penny, Men of Bone

“this clever woman attracted him. And, he believed, she him.”
― David Penny, Men of Bone

“Age does not come quietly. You will find that out soon enough.”
― David Penny, Men of Bone

“They ate in the courtyard with the sky holding a pale violet line in the west.”
― David Penny, The Red Hill

“If you have to punish people, try to punish only the guilty. Sin and guilt are not always the same thing, but it took me many years to work that out.”
― David Penny, The Hidden Dead

“It was a world in the process of falling apart, the seams tearing to let in strange, alien ideas of how life could be lived.”
― David Penny, The Fortunate Dead