Gretta Mulrooney > Quotes

“It's exhausting, tiptoeing around someone who barges into your life with good intentions.”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Lady Vanished

“the numerous ways in which you can destroy love. You can fritter it away, through flirting and affairs. You can fail to pay it attention and watch it wither. You can poison it with arguments and bad blood. You can give up on it without even realising, preoccupied in your own corner. You can let it slip through your fingers as you scan the horizon, believing that there is someone, something better elsewhere.”
― Gretta Mulrooney, Out of the Blue

“She lifts her face to the breeze and lets her unhappiness lie quiet, like a calmed baby who will grow fractious again when it wakes to the difficult business of living.”
― Gretta Mulrooney, Out of the Blue

“Isn’t there a saying that friends are God’s apology for families?”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“unprepossessing”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“the sky was shrugging away the clouds,”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Lady Vanished

“lugubrious”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“sangfroid.”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“shambolic.”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“fusty,”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“lido”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“this”
― Gretta Mulrooney, Never Came Home

“may you live as long as you want to and want to as long as you live.”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“tasseography”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“plenty of decent people whose lives had been shattered by random events.”
― Gretta Mulrooney, These Little Lies

“stationers”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“twee”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“saltcellar”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“tabard”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“it can be hard when you’re pedalling furiously below water to stay afloat.”
― Gretta Mulrooney, These Little Lies

“he came down. ‘Two days. I had a”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“volubility”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“tetchy.”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“Hope is tricky, slippery; it’s a door opening and then slamming in your face. The”
― Gretta Mulrooney, Out of the Blue

“whingers”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“accretion”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“say,”
― Gretta Mulrooney, Detective Siv Drummond Books 1–3: These Little Lies / Never Came Home / Murder in Mallow Cottage

“redoubtable.”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Complete Tyrone Swift Mysteries

“suppose. I don’t care what anyone’s dietary preferences are but I didn’t like the feeling I was being preached to.”
― Gretta Mulrooney, These Little Lies

“Graham Greene, Beryl Bainbridge, Barbara Vine, Seamus Heaney, some Dan Turner — Hollywood Detective, and Shakespeare’s sonnets.”
― Gretta Mulrooney, The Lady Vanished