Isabella Bassett > Quotes

“Tomorrow, Christmas Eve, we would all gather round the majestic tree and decorate it. My nieces and nephews were in charge of the lower branches and given paper decorations to hang on the tree.”
― Isabella Bassett, A Murder Before Christmas

“wasn’t their loose, long hair—the men as well—crowned with floral wreaths that I found slightly surprising. It was that they were all dancing around completely naked. “The Danse Macabre,”
― Isabella Bassett, A Body in the Villa

“the bracing summer breeze would dislodge any fanciful ideas from his head and roared off.”
― Isabella Bassett, Trouble on a Country Lane

“There is the Skull and Bones at Yale University, whose meeting place resembles an Egyptian tomb, the Sphinx at Dartmouth College, whose members meet in a tomb and carry canes emblazoned with Egyptian symbols, then there is the Sphinx Head at Cornell, and the Scarabbean Secret Society at the University of Tennessee, with members known as Scarabs. And these are just some of the better known ones.”
― Isabella Bassett, Secret of the Scarab

“What one needs is to have something to eat, to be useful to his fellow men, and to have somewhere to sleep at night. Like the scarab beetle, we wake up each morning to do god’s work another day.”
― Isabella Bassett, Secret of the Scarab

“crisp piece of paper and cleared his throat. “Death awaits at the end. All roads lead to death. At the end of life is death. The road of life ends with death. The road of life is never straight, and death awaits one at the end.” He looked up from his paper. “Your Aunts could not agree on which declaration”
― Isabella Bassett, Trouble on a Country Lane

“Switzerland was one of the largest exporters of roasted coffee in the world, and that its citizens were some of the biggest consumers of coffee in the world.”
― Isabella Bassett, Out Of Print