Amateur Sleuth Quotes

“It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapter Sixteen.”
― Martin Edwards Michael Gilbert, Smallbone Deceased

“How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“Even in death, her mother was winning.”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“[He] found the beast occupying his bedroom, into which it had broken from a closet adjoining, where it had been, as was thought, securely confined. Razor in hand, and fully lathered, it was sitting before a looking-glass, attempting the operation of shaving, in which it had no doubt previously watched its master through the keyhole of the closet.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“Death by misadventure sounds like a hopeful possibility.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson”
― Jennifer A. Girardin, The Altered Suggestion

“Please don't complicate the investigation by offering an explanation that might actually be true.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson”
― Jennifer A. Girardin, The Monday Criminologist

“Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge”
― Jennifer A. Girardin, The Monday Criminologist

“Remember what I told you about family secrets.” People will kill to keep them, she thought now as she looked at Marianne McGraw. The woman’s rocking didn’t change as Nikki stepped deeper into the room.”
― B.J. Daniels, Dark Horse

“Every day is an opportunity to be kinder, gentler, more loving, and more tolerant.

Small kindnesses make big ripples in the pond of life.”
― M. G. Faust, Blood Under the Oaks

“Even if you fall flat on your face, know that you're moving in the right direction.”
― Jim Manley, Dead Deal: A Myles Scott Assignment

“Around her the world stopped. Everything other than life and death dissolved in the background. In that moment, it was only her touching the pale, waxen skin of a relative stranger.”
― Lisa Bush, City Hall

“Night cloaked the sky. Venus hovered overhead surrounded by traces of stars. The temperature must have dropped, as tears stung Ada’s eyes. She wiped them away with a bare hand. She hadn’t bothered with her gloves or her hood. There was no need to. As Ada navigated across the cul-de-sac, towards her home, silhouetted against the night, she felt no cold. She felt nothing at all.”
― Lisa Bush, City Hall

“Some stories, like sourdough starters and second chances, were only just beginning.”
― Valerie Loyer, Cupcake Crime at Maplewood Bakery: Where the Cupcakes Are Sweet and the Motives Are Sticky