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1 " A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy—insipid! "
― Nancy Atherton
2 " Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood. "
― Nancy Atherton , Aunt Dimity's Good Deed (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #3)
3 " A decent world is built upon small acts of kindness. "
― Nancy Atherton , Aunt Dimity's Christmas (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #5)
4 " Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated. "
5 " Maybe, when all was said and done, that was where love began and what kept it alive: the simple, everyday act of paying attention. "
6 " The Handsome Prince Handbook is mute on the subject of chronic workaholism—Prince Charming, apparently, knew how to delegate—and I didn't know where else to turn for help. What do you do when life begins to go wrong and you've used up all three wishes? "
7 " They were tales of commonplace courage and optimism, for I knew from my own experience that everyday virtues endure best, and that quiet courage is worth more than the grandest derring-do. "
― Nancy Atherton , Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity Mystery #1)
8 " Jack made a pass at me, too. He thought my riding crop was alluring until I smacked him across the face with it." "Good Grief," I said. "Is any woman safe from him? "If I were Horace Malvern," said Emma, "I'd hide the cows. "
9 " When I learned of Aunt Dimity's death, I was stunned. Not because she was dead, but because I had never known she'd been alive. "
10 " If we look upon those we meet with the eyes of the Christ child, we will see the love that binds us and reject the poison of prejudice that binds us to God's light. We will see God's love shine forth from every face as brightly as the star that guided great kings and humble shepherds to the manger. We will love one another as God has loved us, and by doing so, we will keep faith with the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, the child born this day in the city of David, the savior, which is Christ the Lord. "
― Nancy Atherton , Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold (Aunt Dimity #24)
11 " As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. —Christopher Dawson, The Judgment of Nations (1942) "
12 " knowing full well that I looked like something any self-respecting cat would refuse to drag in. "
13 " God's heart is big enough to hold people of all faiths and races. "
14 " It was a small thing, perhaps, but great changes begin with small things. "
15 " …think of kindness as a ripple that spreads outward. If you wish to make the world a better place, send out as many ripples as you can. "
― Nancy Atherton , Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse (Aunt Dimity Mystery #22)
16 " Recognize your limitations and rejoice in them! "
― Nancy Atherton , Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #14)
17 " ...the writing is writ large on the wall: Mother Earth will continue to punish us with floods, famines, and fires until we learn to behave as custodians of the natural world rather than as its conquerors. "
― Nancy Atherton , Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #23)
18 " There's nothing remotely glamorous about waiting hand and foot on a fusspot like Opal, but what a pinched and useless life we'd lead if our only goal was glamour. "
19 " Looking back on it, I suspect that we were trying to keep the world of our letters apart from the world in which we lived. Perhaps we had become so accustomed to the magic of words on paper that we were afraid a face-to-face meeting might break the spell. "
20 " The stories featured a heroine who was, like Beth, blessed with the gift of easy laughter. They were tales of commonplace courage and optimism, for I knew from my own experience that everyday virtues endure best, and that quiet courage is worth more than the grandest derring-do. Thus “Aunt Dimity” was born, a heroine for the common woman. "
