Josephine Tey Quotes

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All his life Toselli's smile had been stretched across his rage, like a tight-rope spanning a chasm. - Josephine Tey quote.
All his life Toselli's smile had been stretched across his rage, like a tight-rope spanning a chasm.
— Josephine Tey A Shilling for Candles

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It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade. - Josephine Tey quote.
It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.
— Josephine Tey The Daughter of Time

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That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight. - Josephine Tey quote.
That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.
— Josephine Tey The Singing Sands

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