Цитаты из книги Sub Rosa

It is the unread book which brings in the royalty (after all, modern translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey are said to sell by the hundred thousand, and the Bible to be more decisively the best seller of all with every year that passes).

At the best of times, to pass by a lot of empty houses is a sad proceeding. It makes you think all the wrong thoughts. Especially when you're young, and not used to such thoughts. And most of all when the empty houses are set in a beautiful spot. That's the worst thing of all.

'What a beautiful room!' - I exclaimed politely. But I was looking over my shoulder to see if the black dog had emerged through the open door on the other side of the landing. 'That is because many people have died in it,' said Madame A. 'The two beautiful things are love and death.'