Leigh Russell > Quotes

“pretty exhausting. I think my mother finds it all too much but she absolutely refuses to let any of us help her.’ ‘How many brothers and sisters have you got?’ ‘Four.’ ‘There are five of you!’ ‘You’re a mathematician?”
― Leigh Russell, Killer Christmas

“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.’ Bertolt Brecht”
― Leigh Russell, Dead End

“It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say ‘It lightens’…’ Shakespeare”
― Leigh Russell, Dead End

“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.’ Siddharta”
― Leigh Russell, Road Closed

“Yet the street possessed a vitality lacking in the more expensive areas of town; a community that screamed its commitment to life. However hard it might be, life was precious.”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“She was glad no one else”
― Leigh Russell, Class Murder

“There must be more to life than this gruelling slog, and constant anxiety, eating away at her. She could find a job in a bar, with no responsibility at all, and look forward to a good night's sleep at the end of each simple day.”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“You just never knew with women. One moment everything was going swimmingly, the next he was made to feel like an idiot. For no reason.”
― Leigh Russell, Road Closed

“then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well’ Othello - William Shakespeare”
― Leigh Russell, Road Closed

“we have gone on living, Living and partly living, Picking together the pieces' T. S. Eliot”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“The flesh I had loved for so many years didn’t deserve the quick passage of a cremation. I wanted him to think of him rotting slowly, as a penance for having destroyed my happiness.”
― Leigh Russell, The Adulterer's Wife

“There is always some madness in love’ Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Leigh Russell, Road Closed

“pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness' E. E. Cummings”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“It's my son, Vernon,’ the invalid began when they were all settled.”
― Leigh Russell, Dead End

“Bloody year nine,' she grumbled amiably to a colleague who grunted in sympathy.
There were the usual national curriculum-endorsed leaflets and brochures in her pigeonhole: Shakespeare Made Easy, Spelling Made Easy, Everything Made Easy. If teaching was easy, why was it so bloody hard? Among the”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.' Pablo Picasso”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine eyes.’ Shakespeare”
― Leigh Russell, Dead End

“you never know, do you, what your life might have been like if you’d followed a different path.”
― Leigh Russell, Journey to Death

“She had to be the invalid's sister. ‘Mrs Carol Middleton?”
― Leigh Russell, Dead End

“Geraldine Steel is back for her tenth case. Reunited in York with her former sergeant, Ian Peterson, she discovers that her tendency to bend the rules has consequences. The tables have turned, and now he’s the boss. When two people are murdered, their only connection lies buried in the past. As police search for the”
― Leigh Russell, Killer Christmas

“All things that we clasp and cherish, Pass like dreams we may not keep.”
― Leigh Russell, Road Closed

“She's one of those rare officers who seems to sniff out a villain by instinct.”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“I have sent to seek him and to find the body. How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!’ Hamlet - William Shakespeare”
― Leigh Russell, Road Closed

“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.’ Arthur Koestler”
― Leigh Russell, Dead End

“the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking' Albert Einstein”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

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― Leigh Russell, Deadly Alibi

“looking for someone who was working alongside them on the murder team.”
― Leigh Russell, Dead End

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.’ Khalil Gibran”
― Leigh Russell, Dead End

“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.' F. Scott Fitzgerald”
― Leigh Russell, Cut Short

“Life’s too short to waste on people who treat you badly.”
― Leigh Russell, Journey to Death