Hannah Dolby > Quotes

“Breaking into the museum was seeming easier every day. There was no security guard at night, Mackenzie had discovered, perhaps because nobody wanted to steal tortured animals.”
― Hannah Dolby, No Life for a Lady

“am with my fiancé. He is off playing billiards. He often leaves me at parties. I can get a little lonely. But now I have found you! Perhaps we shall become bosom acquaintances.’ ‘Oh my dear, my bosom is too old to get acquainted with anyone,”
― Hannah Dolby, How to Solve Murders Like a Lady

“This world is made up of more than one kind of person, and, hopefully, there’s room for us all.”
― Hannah Dolby, No Life for a Lady

“What on earth was I to do for the next couple of days? Tapestry? It was not in my nature to sit still. Perhaps it was time I learnt how to wait. I would be humble, self-sacrificing. Patient. Even though I was only mildly religious, I imagined myself on my knees before the altar in my local church, praying for his return. Knitting socks for soldiers. Reading improving texts, crying a little into my pillow as I prayed. Perhaps affection changed one fundamentally as a person. I could join a nunnery, briefly, until he came back. I contemplated my possible futures glumly and then shook myself back to common sense.”
― Hannah Dolby, How to Solve Murders Like a Lady

“For too long I had felt pinned to the past, a butterfly on a board.”
― Hannah Dolby, No Life for a Lady

“I could accept her back as the froth in my life.”
― Hannah Dolby, How to Solve Murders Like a Lady

“The two detectives were as different as chicken soup and stewed tripe and I would choose chicken soup every time.”
― Hannah Dolby, No Life for a Lady

“Any woman who breaks a mould, who is a pioneer for a new way of being a woman, will be more subject to censure than most. Don’t add your own voice to the melee. Be your own fiercest champion so that you can face your worst critics. And if you believe in yourself, in who you are and what you do, and follow through, you will find most people take you at your own accounting.”
― Hannah Dolby, How to Solve Murders Like a Lady