Julia Buckley > Quotes

“I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun. —ZSA ZSA GABOR”
― Julia Buckley, Death in a Budapest Butterfly

“Nothing bonds two people so well as loving the same books.”
― Julia Buckley, A Dark and Stormy Murder

“Truth can come in an instant, and when one looks into Her eyes, one's vision is forever altered. From Death on the Danube (fictitious book)”
― Julia Buckley, Death in Dark Blue

“Her mother had always quoted an expression which, loosely translated, meant "Danger wears a cloak of silence." And it was true that she did not hear danger approaching." From (fictitious book) Death on the Danube.”
― Julia Buckley, Death in Dark Blue

“You’re reading. I can tell. Your voice is all soft and cobwebby.”
― Julia Buckley, A Dark and Stormy Murder

“I had read every book Camilla Graham had ever written; since then I’d reread them all. I perused them often, the way one might seek the comfort of a dear and special friend.”
― Julia Buckley, A Dark and Stormy Murder

“No cat had ever lain awake worrying over some external drama. I vowed to live my life in a more catlike manner.”
― Julia Buckley, A Dark and Stormy Murder

“Something about fall air always speaks to my soul, and I felt alive in a new way, ready to grapple with the world and win.”
― Julia Buckley, A Dark and Stormy Murder

“I knew that writing was a layered process, and one had to find little joys as one went along. A finished novel was a culmination, but Camilla had once said, in a 1981 interview, that “the real joy is in going down the path, pen in hand, and meeting your story as it comes. You never know what adventures await you, and it’s the start of the journey that is the most thrilling. At the end, when the book is done, you all say good-bye. I far prefer the start: my characters as my friends, and a whole adventure awaiting us.”
― Julia Buckley, A Dark and Stormy Murder

“across”
― Julia Buckley, A Dark and Stormy Murder

“After that we were like a club, my mother and me. She reread all the books with me, and we would exchange them and talk about the characters. Nothing bonds two people so well as loving the same books.”
― Julia Buckley, A Dark and Stormy Murder