Dee MacDonald > Quotes

“Why are we women always so plagued with guilt for one reason or another?”
― Dee MacDonald, The Runaway Wife

“My dear woman, I love watching stuff like this! It gives me inspiration for the tales I tell, the books I write, the nice little twists of horror I can insert into my writing if it looks like it's becoming dull - little shocks to wake up the reader”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body in Seaview Grange

“Not for the first time she wondered if men really did worry about things as much as women did”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at the Tea Rooms

“Nevertheless, if she was pushed, you're going to be a suspect, I guess. Why are you always in the wrong place at the wrong time, Kate?”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body on the Beach

“Kate looked around. How fortunate she was to live in this lovely cottage, with this wonderful man, in glorious Cornwall!”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at Lavender Cottage

“near.”
― Dee MacDonald, Murder in the Scottish Highlands

“But they take you completely for granted?’ Baz suggested. ‘I suppose they do. I think I’m too eager to please, and so I seem to have lost all sense of who I am. Of being Connie, who had a job, and who met people every day and had something interesting to talk about. All I’ve done for years now is what everyone else wants. I’ve forgotten how to make my own decisions, to stand up for myself. Do you follow me?”
― Dee MacDonald, The Runaway Wife

“If she'd learned anything over this past year it was that the most innocent-looking and sounding women were not necessarily what they seemed”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at the Altar

“So perhaps now it was time to stop trying to please other people and start trying to please herself.”
― Dee MacDonald, The Silver Ladies of Penny Lane

“waitress, who looked about sixteen, was encased in metal-ware from her pierced, ringed eyebrows to her studded nose and lip, and then sideways to her multi-pierced ears, which jangled as she bent down. ‘I’m starving,’ Connie remarked, picking up the menu. ‘How about a Barney’s Bonanza, then? Comes”
― Dee MacDonald, The Runaway Wife

“Life is for living, and that’s exactly what I plan to do from now on.”
― Dee MacDonald, The Runaway Wife

“While a youthful mind is undoubtedly an asset, the body keeps reminding us otherwise.”
― Dee MacDonald, The Getaway Girls

“You've now become known as the local super-sleuth, Miss Marple or whatever. Cats might have nine lives, but you bloody well don't. So leave them all to it, otherwise you'll antagonise someone - probably the someone who writes the letters - and you could be in trouble all over again. Come on, Kate, you're the only sister I've got! Take up crochet or something!”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at the Altar

“Life is a one-way journey – no return tickets available.”
― Dee MacDonald, The Runaway Wife

“Remember what I told you before: every murderer needs a motive, a means and an opportunity”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at the Altar

“She found her husband almost as white-faced as the corpse, as he stared in horror at the unfortunate man. Woody, having spent most of his life in the police, was not given to being easily horrified, but then again, he'd probably never found a body in his own garden before”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at Lavender Cottage

“Well, Woody's ex-police and you're the local Miss Marple, so if anyone's going to solve this thing, it'll be you two!”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at Lavender Cottage

“Robson stood up. 'Mrs Palmer, I understand that you're a friend of ex-Detective Inspector Forrest and that you've been involved in some amateur detective work during the past year, but please do not tell me how to do my job. You are plainly concerned about your own, which is why you've come here. I very much hope we do not find the medical centre is the guilty party in this matter, but time will tell.' With that, he stood up, file in hand, and headed towards the door, holding it open. The interview was at an end”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body in Seaview Grange

“I don’t know. I sometimes feel like I’m disappearing into everyone’s lives, being put upon and not much appreciated. I suppose I’m loved, but I don’t feel it. And I’m under-stimulated, too. Maybe now they might all be more aware of my existence or, at least, my absence. Does that make sense? My two youngest live locally, both with infants who need constantly looking after. Don’t get me wrong, I love them all to bits, but…”
― Dee MacDonald, The Runaway Wife

“Kate was aware that her so-called sleuthing had endangered her own life on several occasions, and vowed to keep herself out of trouble from now on. If only she wasn't so fascinated by crime-solving!”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body on the Beach

“These”
― Dee MacDonald, The Runaway Wife

“I'm sorry too. Because it seems to me that I am no longer of any importance to you. I'm only someone who stops you doing what you want”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at the Altar

“In the UK,' Kate explained patiently, 'it's breeding that makes you gentry. Years of breeding and inbreeding, and usually with a centuries-old stately pile that they can't afford to run.”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at the Tea Rooms

“I have no idea how you two manage to get yourselves involved in every murder going. Come to think of it, I've never known such a succession of killings, bearing in mind this is a comparatively small village. You know what? I'm about ready to go back to the Met for a rest”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at Lavender Cottage

“actual”
― Dee MacDonald, The Runaway Wife

“Kate knew that each time you met someone, you got to know a little more about them. They gave little snippets of themselves away without realising it. It was almost an advantage that she, Kate, was a suspect herself so that they were all in the same boat and, hopefully, none of these people would suspect her of studying them”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body on the Beach

“Kate didn't care much for general gossip but there were times when extracting a few titbits of specific information could be quite useful, to say the least”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at the Tea Rooms

“These two might be able to distance themselves from a murder victim; after all, that was their line of work, their way of thinking. Kate, though, was always affected by the deaths she'd been involved in solving; they were people to her, not bodies”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at the Altar

“If there was one thing she'd learned after three years in a Cornish village, it was that word got around fast. And with each telling, so the story became further embellished”
― Dee MacDonald, A Body at Lavender Cottage