Alexandra Benedict > Quotes

“Fear and excitement are twins; they live on opposite sides of the same door. It's up to you which room you live in.

[Violet Harper Armitage]”
― Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

“Leaves have fallen onto the snow like punctuation marks. They've held on for so long, but winter gets to us all in the end.”
― Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

“It’s being here, surrounded by ghosts and people who are crying out for help and screaming at me to stay away. It’s nothing and everything at once.”
― Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

“Us crones need to sit and stick together. Maidens think they know everything when they have learned nothing. Mothers aren’t much better. The crones, though. Crones know. That’s why people are so scared of us, try to keep us invisible. But that’s when we have the most power. They can’t stop us if they don’t see us. We slip through the net. We’re like ghosts through locked doors.”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“The night passes slowly, as interminable as a Monopoly game.”
― Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

“Her mother runs beside her. "Everything will be OK," she said. But Roz can't imagine how the world will ever be OK again.”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“Us crones need to sit and stick together. Maidens think they know everything when they have learned nothing. Mothers aren't much better. The crones, though. Crones know That's why people are so scared of us, try to keep us invisible. But that's when we have the most power. They can't stop us if they don't see us. We slip through the net. We` re like ghosts through locked doors”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“The 'too sensitive' defence, used about skin and people by those that broke them”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“Fuori passavano in un lampo siepi e giardini e rettangoli di luce. In teoria sapeva che era lei a muoversi, ma l’impressione era diversa. Era la magia dei treni. Il mondo sembrava scivolarti accanto mentre tu stai fermo, e comunque, in qualche modo, arrivi sempre a destinazione. Se solo anche la vita fosse così.”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“Winter festivals have always acknowledged death. It's about holding onto the light at the darkest times, a flickering hope that the long nights will shrink and, even though we can hardly imagine it now, dawn will come and so will sumer”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“Fear and excitement are twins; they live on opposite sides of the same door. It's up to you which room you live in.”
― Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

“... przemilczany uraz przechodzi w trwały ból. To, że nie objawia się na zewnątrz, nie znaczy, że zanikł.”
― Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

“Funny time to have a snowball fight. But then everyone reacts differently to death. Maybe they were trying to revert to childhood.”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“And as she was getting older people noticed her less and less. She was being erased by age”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“Anyone who said that you could successfully juggle a vocation with parenthood had never tried juggling. Juggling was hard.”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“Mountains, at least, were more knowable than people. Their dangers were clear. If you chose to climb them, then you bore the consequences”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“None of this meant anything necessarily. The police made even the innocent feel guilty. And sometimes it was the ones who didn't react that you had to watch.”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“Sally's shoulders fell forwards and her chest went back, as if she felt physically punched in the heart. They did that to you, children. Every day. And then they threw their arms around your neck and told you they loved you. Adorable gas-lighters, every single one.”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“Tragedia nie oznacza, że nie można się dobrze bawić (...) Czasami emocje są ze sobą połączone. (...) Strach jest po drugiej stronie muru ekscytacji. (...) To pomaga nam docenić życie.”
― Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

“It felt to Roz like crime scenes had their own gravity, as if the air was more heavy upon them”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“Look, love, this is going to be hard for you, I know. Incredibly You now have two people to love but hearts are like mozzarella: warm them up and they'll stretch as far as they're needed”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“His shock didn't mean he was innocent, though. Roz had witnessed people being somehow surprised that the person they'd murdered had died, Especially where there was domestic violence. Cases like this used to be called crimes of passion, and still were in some countries.”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“But there were no words, and there was no time. She wouldn't burden Roz with the true story. Because that's what it was, if you told someone your story some of the words stuck to them. It was inevitable. And all those words accrued, one after another, snowflake words that turned into a blizzard of abuse.”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“Grief caused a hole that you grew around. And not just grief; all loss was the same. Loss of adolescence when becoming a young mum. Loss of trust when abused.”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“Roz's simmering anger boiled over Abusers were increasingly using the defence of agreed BDSM practices to account for "accidental" death when those communities usually had more safety rules than the so called “vanilla" majority. Roz opened her phone and scrolled to the close-up photo she'd taken of Meg's scratched neck,”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“They walk in time with each other’s footsteps. Isabelle takes her hand. It’s warm and soft and feels like home.”
― Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game

“Some people who have been abused feel they don't deserve to get help.”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“He was a funny one all right. But you can't judge him for that. Everyone's funny in a way that's normal for them”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“I used to be in the police, I know the law. She also knew that the law and the people who enforced it were inadequate. It was partly why she'd had to resign. Too many victims not getting justice”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express

“Cheese was for life, not just for Christmas, but there was something particularly festive about a cheese board.”
― Alexandra Benedict, Murder on the Christmas Express