# Quote — Keith Roberts, Pavane

> She curled her lip. She had discovered cynicism.

- Author: [Keith Roberts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-roberts.md)
- Book: [Pavane](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-roberts/pavane.md)
- Page: 194
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Keith_Roberts#Pavane_(1968)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-roberts/pavane/she-curled-her

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> She stopped dead; and the look in her eyes showed plainly she’d just received the import of a crude lesson in economics.

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> A death was more than an ending; it was like pulling a thread from a richly patterned cloth.

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> The years had a way of piling themselves one atop the next, unnoticed and uncounted; that was how young men turned into old ones.

p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-roberts/pavane/the-years-had.md)