Donna Leon Quotes

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort. - Donna Leon

Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way. - Donna Leon

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it. - Donna Leon

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not. - Donna Leon

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now. - Donna Leon

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military. - Donna Leon

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him. - Donna Leon

Blood From a Stone. - Donna Leon

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