“The spicy sweet fragrance of the large full blooms, which rambled over the side and top of an arched metal framework, welcomed them as they walked beneath them. Shafts of sunlight pierced the canopy, dust motes floating languorously in the golden beams that spotlighted clumps of wayward snowdrops growing in the lawn.” Love StoryHistorical FictionMurder MysteryAntiques1920sTrue FriendshipsAntiques DealersMing StatueVictoria AustraliaDragon Statue Book:The Dragon Sleeps Source: The Dragon Sleeps
“I don't hate my occupation: its cadaverous ivories, its pallid crockery, all the goods of the dead, the furniture that they made, the tables that they painted, the glasses from which they drank when life was still sweet to them. Truly, the occupation of an antiquarian is a situation almost ideal for a necrophiliac” AntiquesJobs QuotesOccupationsNecrophiliaAntiques DealersNecrophiliacs Book:The Necrophiliac Source: The Necrophiliac