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“A love that dared not speak its name’? In recent years, Brunetti had come to wish that some sorts of love would decide to speak their names a bit less loudly. Did people not realize how tiresome so much of this conversation was to anyone who thought the sexual behaviour of other people was not a matter to discuss or judge?” (Transient Desires Quotes)
Donna Leon
Transient Desires
“Brunetti watched Cesco trying to decide whether to say something else, so he made himself look as much like an oak tree as possible: patient, motionless, secure.”
Donna Leon
Transient Desires
“He could just tabulate all the hours he’d spent talking about politics and politicians during his life and could pack them together like a snowball and somehow add them to his life, how much longer would he live? Even more interesting, how else might he have used that time? He could have learned another language; to knit and have made sweaters or long, uneven scarves for everyone. What colour Judo belt would he be entitled to wear by now?”
Donna Leon
Transient Desires
“He realized how primitive this feeling was but, as a friend of his father had often said, he had only one head, so he had only one way to think about things.”
Donna Leon
Transient Desires
“Nieddu’s gesture came of the same mysterious, irresistible urge to make things better for other people. For a relative, for a stranger: the urge to make things better was in our marrow.”
Donna Leon
Transient Desires
“Se Dio vuole,’ Alaimo said. Griffoni made a noise, half gasp and half laugh. ‘If God wills,’ she said.”
Donna Leon
Transient Desires
“There had been no noise from any other part of the apartment, but that did not exclude the possibility of Paola’s presence, especially if she had given her soul over to reading. He sometimes told her that Attila could storm through the house and she’d not notice if she were reading. She had most recently disputed this by claiming that it would depend on the book.”
Donna Leon
Transient Desires
“Wish that some sorts of love would decide to speak their names a bit less loudly. Did people not realize how tiresome so much of this conversation was to anyone who thought the sexual behaviour of other people was not a matter to discuss or judge?”
Donna Leon
Transient Desires
