Sunday, January 24, 2010

Devotion

Subject:  Devotion
Quote:  “[N]othing is so boring as devotion.”
Character:  Simeon Lee
Chapter/Story:  II
Book Title/Copyright:  A Holiday for Murder (Murder for Christmas), 1938


Subject:  Worship
Quote:  She’d got it all right; the humility, the strength in the neck muscles, the bowed shoulders, the slightly upraised face—a featureless face, since worship drives out personality. 
Character:  Omniscient narrator
Chapter/Story:  2
Book Title/Copyright:  Murder After Hours (The Hollow), 1946