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1 " Before you hate something you should try to understand it. "
― Martha Grimes , Dakota (Andi Oliver, #2)
2 " An idyllic childhood is probably illusion. "
― Martha Grimes , The Lamorna Wink (Richard Jury, #16)
3 " We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. "
― Martha Grimes
4 " Melrose was so concerned that the [book]shop might close for lack of business, that he had suggested he would like to invest in it or even become a silent partner. "You see, books have always been a hobby of mine." Books had never been a hobby; they were a necessity. "
― Martha Grimes , Vertigo 42 (Richard Jury, #23)
5 " Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around deadlines. She set these various dates, she'd told him, to fool herself. "
― Martha Grimes , Rainbow's End (Richard Jury, #13)
6 " And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. "Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas. "
― Martha Grimes , The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)
7 " Old willows trailed veils of wet leaves across his path. Moss crawled up the headstones. The place was otherwise deserted. "
― Martha Grimes , Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury, #5)
8 " Losing one's mind is surely like losing one's virginity. Lose a little, lose a lot. "
― Martha Grimes , The Old Fox Deceiv'd (Richard Jury, #2)
9 " As he followed Wood, Jury thought: one disappearance, two auto accident victims, one in a mental institution, one drowned. One murdered. Rackmoor, for all its bracing sea air, didn’t seem the healthiest place in the British Isles. "
10 " Macalvie, that was an incredibly lachrymose question. "
11 " Melrose, smiling brightly at the butcher. "
12 " Sheba, who didn’t especially like me, although she did serve me cookies when I was here before. I’d managed to get rid of them. My mother’s cookies had spoiled me for anyone else’s. I think I crumbled up Sheba’s and tossed them off the porch. “How are you, Mr. Queen? I’m real sorry to "
― Martha Grimes , Fadeaway Girl (Emma Graham, #4)
13 " Fear wearing black.' Definition of cool. Maybe it's also the definition of courage. Would she be courageous?”. "
― Martha Grimes , The Grave Maurice (Richard Jury, #18)
14 " any particular idiot in mind?” “I do, indeed. If Tom was actually here on Monday, and he needed an alibi, well, man, he didn’t have one! "
15 " Having little to do with the present, Mr. Beaton had plenty of room for the past. Oh, yes, he read the papers and knew that governments came and went ("Conservative, Labor, Sociopath," Mr. Beaton would chuckle), but that made no odds to him. "
16 " Steptoe continued: “Yes, I had a very tasty dish of flageolet "
― Martha Grimes , The Blue Last (Richard Jury, #17)
17 " mind,” he said. “I’ll just get it then. "
― Martha Grimes , The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury, #3)
18 " desk’s "
― Martha Grimes , Dust (Richard Jury, #21)
19 " Love was rather terrifying. Something so hard to find should not be so easily lost. "
20 " Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. "
