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Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1) QUOTES

Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1) QUOTES

1 " Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

2 " When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

3 " You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they're supposed to be. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

4 " Of course I worry too much,” Nate said. “But I’m usually right. The people who worry are always right. That’s how that works. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

5 " There is nothing so serious as a game. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

6 " What you lack in any investigation is time. With every passing hour, evidence slips away. Crime scenes are compromised by people and the elements. Things are moved, altered, smeared, shifted. Organisms rot. Wind blows dust and contaminants. Memories change and fade. As you move away from the event, you move away from the solution. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

7 " Sometimes Stevie felt bad for her parents. Their idea of what constituted interesting was so limited. They were never going to have as much fun as she did. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

8 " Albert Ellingham said knowledge was his religion and libraries were his church, so he built a church. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

9 " Few words are more chilling when put together than make friends. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

10 " Did they know that Arthur Conan Doyle went on to investigate mysteries in his real life and absolved a man for a crime for which he has been convicted? Did they know how Agatha Christie brilliantly staged her own disappearance in order to exact an elegant revenge on a cheating husband? They probably did not. And no one was going to discount Stevie Bell, who had gotten into this school on the wings of her interest in the Ellingham case, and who had been a bystander at a death that was now looking more and more suspicious. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

11 " I annoy people," he said. "Believe me. I'm aware. It's an effective way to communicate if you don't have any other options. If you can't get in through the door, throw a rock through the window. And I think maybe you're the same way. - David, to Stevie "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

12 " Sherlock said, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

13 " QUESTION EVERYTHING; STAND BACK, I’M GOING TO TRY SCIENCE!; I REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

14 " Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

15 " Last things were so strange. Most people had no control over of what their last acts would be. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

16 " 10/30/38
Where do you look for someone who's never really there?
Always on a staircase but never on a stair "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

17 " That particular April day was strange and foggy, blurring spaces between the trees and blanketing all of Ellingham in a milky mist. Dottie decided that the weather lent itself to a mystery. Sherlock Holmes would be perfect. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

18 " When she opened the window, a giant moth blew in. It beat a hasty path to the ceiling light and landed against it with a thunk. “I know the feeling,” Stevie said to it. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

19 " Look! A riddle! Time for fun!
Should we use a rope or gun?
Knives are sharp and gleam so pretty
Poison’s slow, which is a pity
Fire is festive, drowning’s slow
Hanging’s a ropy way to go
A broken head, a nasty fall
A car colliding with a wall
Bombs make a very jolly noise
Such ways to punish naughty boys!
What shall we use? We can’t decide.
Just like you cannot run or hide.
Ha ha.
Truly,
Devious "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)

20 " How could she be anxious when everything was so cheerful? Very easily, as it happens. Brain chemistry doesn’t care about how pretty things are. "

― Maureen Johnson , Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1)