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1 " If someone is determined to kill himself, nothing will stop him. "
― Dorothy Simpson
2 " I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it." -Detective Thanet. "
― Dorothy Simpson , Puppet For A Corpse (Inspector Thanet, #3)
3 " Why it should feel worse to speak ill of the dead than the living I can't imagine. "
4 " Perhaps being an actress means that in a situation like this people will constantly be questioning whether the emotions you display are genuine. "
5 " The ideal way to live would be always to treat each day, each encounter with loved ones, as one's last. Only thus could one avoid the endless self-reproach, self-recrimination, with which so many flagellate themselves after a sudden loss. "
6 " A good detective not only has to be intelligent, persevering and prepared to do enless boring routine work, he also needs one other quality: Intuition. I see it rather as the ability to make connections which are there but are not immediately apparent. Subterranean connections. "
7 " Look, you know the anger is unconstructive, don’t you? So you have to defuse it. And you do this either by trying to understand your own reaction, just why you are getting so annoyed, or by asking yourself why it is he finds it necessary to behave so provocatively. "
― Dorothy Simpson , The Inspector Thanet Mysteries Volume Three: Element of Doubt / Suspicious Death / Dead by Morning
8 " Life is not in the habit of producing just what we want when we want it. For every exciting, challenging task there are usually a hundred dull ones to be tackled."Detective Thanet- Puppet for a Corpse "
9 " She would have lacked that inner warmth which somehow survives despite the relentless drudgery and constant proximity to human suffering. Her patients to her would have been flesh, bones, blood, not people. "
10 " Murder could be a psychological alternative to suicide. "
