Daniela

“[On Corpses] Many cases begin with one - this can be disconcerting, but at least you know where you sand. Worse is he corpse that appears partway into your investigation, complicating everything. Best to proceed, therefore, with the vigilance of one who assumes that a corpse is always around the next corner. That way it is less likely to be your own.”
― Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection

“A man doesn't know a friend until he knows his friend's anger.”
― Zoë Ferraris, Finding Nouf

“Where does American money come from? Steel. Railways. You know how it is over there. It doesn't matter if you murder or rob to get it. The trick is in keeping it for a hundred years, and then you're aristocrats.”
― Donna Leon

“If enough eyes experienced the same hallucination, it turned into a truth.”
― Elif Shafak