Alisa Craig > Quotes

“I never heard such drivel in my life," said Evangeline Fairfield.

It was the most injudicious remark she'd ever made. Arethusa turned on her like a wounded tigress.

Madam, I write such drivel!”
― Alisa Craig, The Grub-And-Stakers Quilt a Bee

“The house looked a tiny bit unfamiliar, as houses always do when their owners have ben away.”
― Alisa Craig, The Grub-And-Stakers Quilt a Bee

“Dittany hadn't lived in Lobelia Falls all her life without coming to realize that walls do in fact have ears and every little bird is a stool pigeon at heart.”
― Alisa Craig, The Grub-And-Stakers Pinch a Poke

“I'm making a statement about conformity."
For or against?"
That's for the viewer to decide. I'm an artist, not a preacher."

Agnes Phiffer & Osbert Monk in The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn”
― Alisa Craig

“She'd prepared dainty sandwiches on thin-sliced date bread, filled with cream cheese and walnuts plus a dash of horseradish for zest and a sprinkling of paprika for color. She'd trimmed the crusts, carved her creations into neat triangles, and packed them between layers of biodegradable waxed paper in a Crawford's biscuit tin.”
― Alisa Craig, The Grub-And-Stakers Move a Mountain

“Her husband laughed at this merry flight of fancy....”
― Alisa Craig, The Grub-And-Stakers Move a Mountain

“In her hand was a champagne glass, on her face was a vaguely Mona Lisaish smile. Her eyes were fathomless pools of inscrutability, her thoughts were elsewhere, as Arethusa's thoughts so often were. Even so, she was going through the motions with such finesse and savoir faire as only undertakers and reigning queens of roguish Regency romance are capable of displaying.”
― Alisa Craig, The Grub-And-Stakers House a Haunt

“One thing about bad news, as their own dead mother used to say, it could always wait till morning.”
― Alisa Craig, A Pint of Murder