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“Some day I would like to write a textbook on how to be a female detective in a man's world. Rule Number One: try not to let your animosity show. Your career as an investigator will be short lived if you cannot hide your feelings when you dislike, distrust, or despise your interviewee.”
― Dying in the Wool
― Dying in the Wool
“- 'He reckons you're one of these new women. You've deeply unsettled the female population by driving your car about and prying into other people's affairs.'
And here I was, chiding myself for being so entirely conventional. I rose in my own estimation.”
― Dying in the Wool
And here I was, chiding myself for being so entirely conventional. I rose in my own estimation.”
― Dying in the Wool
“At school she learned a poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade. One line came back to her: ‘Someone had blundered’. There was never a time when someone high up didn’t blunder. It was always them at the top of the heap who blundered and them near the bottom of the heap who paid the price.”
― The Body on the Train: Book 11 in the Kate Shackleton mysteries
― The Body on the Train: Book 11 in the Kate Shackleton mysteries
“This interest in ragtime gives both of us the opportunity to be considered fashionably scandalous.”
― Dying in the Wool
― Dying in the Wool
“There are no very big miracles left in the world, only small ones.”
― A Mansion for Murder
― A Mansion for Murder
“This was a foolish venture. I blamed having a nap and fishcake and chips which had left me with energy to spare, and that awful desire to Do Something that overtakes me at the most inconvenient times.”
― Death at the Seaside
― Death at the Seaside
“I seethed but refused to be ruffled.”
― Murder on a Summer's Day
― Murder on a Summer's Day
“Usually in life, the prospect of a dreaded event is worse than the event itself, nothing being good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
― Murder on a Summer's Day
― Murder on a Summer's Day
“An earlier version of me might have heard gates clang behind me. When young and marching for the vote, I was with the suffragists. We took part in peaceful demonstrations but not everyone avoided arrest. I knew the experience of imprisonment through the stories of suffragette friends, the brutality and attempts to strip away the self. I had no wish to be a martyr; played my part, but was secretly relieved not to be incarcerated.
I took a deep breath and gave myself a shake. I walked towards the man at the gate, permit in hand. One more deep breath and I became someone else, a person who will not be cowed by men in uniform, no matter what their rank or station. Nursing experience always stands me in good stead. And I have excellent models among my old suffrage friends, and my family. Women from my mother's and aunt's rank in life quite naturally carry an air of authority and entitlement. There is a way of shifting the shoulders and straightening the back.”
― The Body on the Train
I took a deep breath and gave myself a shake. I walked towards the man at the gate, permit in hand. One more deep breath and I became someone else, a person who will not be cowed by men in uniform, no matter what their rank or station. Nursing experience always stands me in good stead. And I have excellent models among my old suffrage friends, and my family. Women from my mother's and aunt's rank in life quite naturally carry an air of authority and entitlement. There is a way of shifting the shoulders and straightening the back.”
― The Body on the Train
“We gave India a language, a system of law, a trusted civil service of the highest quality, railways, and an army. They look up to us because we know how to go about things in the right way.”
― Murder on a Summer's Day
― Murder on a Summer's Day
