Quotes
List here any quote, from Ruth Rendell's book Judgement in Stone. Quotes that inspire you, or give you a strong visual image, or maybe you just admire the author's use of words
..... poetic, lyrical, straightforward, cultural, etc ....
We are reading A Judgement in Stone in celebration of Ruth Rendell's birthday: February 17, 1930 Listen to Ruth discussing her novel BBC World Service - World Book Club, Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone
Her days now began to be spent in a narrow twilight world, for illiteracy is a kind of darkness.
ReplyDelete... why was she so easily persuaded, she who was so bound to her burrow and her warren as any wild animal?
ReplyDeleteWinter had stripped bare the woods and the hedges, and screaming gulls followed Mr. Meadows' plough. The magical light of Suffolk became wan and opalescent, and the sky, as the earth turned its farthest from the sun, almost green with a streaking of long butter-coloured clouds. Blood is nipped and ways be foul and nightly sings the staring owl. From cottage chimneys the smoke of log fires rose in long grey plumes.
ReplyDeleteShe had reached the edge of a pit in which was nothing short of raving madness, and she teetered there on the brink until, two months later, whipped-up fanaticism toppled her over.
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