quotes :0

• 'with its almost illegible scrawl seemed out of place and alien' - Irene about Clare's letter
• 'it was, she thought, being wafted upward on a magic carpet to another world' - Irene about the Drayton hotel
• 'wide mouth like a scarlet flower against the ivory of her skin' - Irene first perception of Clare
• 'it's such a frightfully easy thing to do. If ones the type, all that's needed is a little nerve' - Clare on passing
• 'so that's that. Nothing could have been easier' - Clare on passing
• 'but she did see her' - Irene on clare
• 'Gertrude, Irene thought, looked as if her husband might be a butcher' - Irene on Gertrude
• 'but, of course, nobody wants a dark child' - Gertrude on race
• 'its south america that attracts him' - Irene on Brian
• 'Irene Redfield was trying to understand the look on Clare's face as she had said goodbye' - Irene on Clare
• 'uncontrollable curiosity' - Irene on her feelings about clare
• 'no, clare kendry cared nothing for the race. She only belonged to it' - Irene on Clare
• 'clare was acting, not consciously, perhaps'
• 'irene didn't like changes, particularly changes that affected the smooth routine of her household' - Irene on clare
• 'yes, clare, you. it's not safe. not safe at all' - Irene to clare
• 'i'm beginning to believe, she murmured, that no one ever is completely happy, or free, or safe' - Clare
• 'children aren't everything' - Clare
• 'she's intelligent enough in a purely feminine way' - Irene on Clare
• 'she closed her unseeing eyes' - Irene
• 'on the floor at her feet lay the shattered cup. Dark stains dotted the bright rug.'
• 'it hurt. it hurt like hell' - irene on her cut from the teacup but also??
• 'centuries after, she heard the strange man saying: 'death by misadventure, I'm inclined to believe.'' - Irene