Hamish De'Lamet > Quotes

“I don’t think she would’ve clubbed the guy’s head in with anything. Too quick, and not painful enough.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Hex High School

“The Second Really Big Problem: my parents! They wanted to know everything! They wanted to call their lawyer! They wanted to call Mr. Stark, the private detective I had been talking to! They wanted to call the school! They wanted to call the parents of any kid from school I mentioned!”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Hex High School

“That’s right. Ain’t no crime to have a teddy bear in your toolbox.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Dial Emma For Murder

“Death threats and obscure obscenities floated gently through the afternoon air.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Dial Emma For Murder

“This is the second journal that we found in the box – we being Hamish and Chandral. We wished we hadn’t found it, of course, because it meant that the nightmare kept on going! In the introduction to Book One, we wrote that we could sleep at night, only if we assumed that this was all fiction, which we are still not sure about! And now Book Two has made it even harder for us to sleep at night!”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Dial Emma For Murder

“Was there a serial killer in America who only killed students and janitors at high schools?”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Hex High School

“The sun has melted the snow. But I don’t know when. I’ll write more later, when I feel better. Here’s what I remember, after reading these journals, and having the same dream for a long time.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Hex High School

“I’ll admit to not sleeping at all that first night, when the late night news announced her death. She should’ve gone to the police kept rotating in my head.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Dial Emma For Murder

“Puns are the lowest form of humor,” he proclaimed the cliché proudly. “Shakespeare used puns,” I observed. “You are not Shakespeare.” I had to agree.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Why Begins With W

“A comedy about killing people? Like, that is just so awful.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Why Begins With W

“You’re on your way to medical school, aren’t you?” I asked. “Right! And out of this punk town forever!” “It isn’t a bad punk town,” I commented.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Dial Emma For Murder

“No, I guess I’ll keep my promise and write very simply. I’ll probably just bury this story somewhere.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Dial Emma For Murder

“I suggested she tell him she really likes his new look, if she can say it with a straight face.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Dial Emma For Murder

“You’re talkin’ ‘bout the deaths at the high school, huh?” I nodded and waited to be let in, and then I would ask to open a window. He was still studying me. “You’ve gone to the cops already, huh?” “Like I said, they think my story is just kids over-reacting, teenage hysteria.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Dial Emma For Murder

“I had already just committed my first official crime by breaking into the van. Why not go all the way and steal the box? Such is the slippery slope of sin! After you commit one crime, the next one gets easier. And then after a while you stop noticing that what you’re doing is wrong.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Dial Emma For Murder

“The doorbell rang. My long lost cousin Martika came to visit me. “What’ve you been doing?” she asked. I pointed to the stereo and said: “Listening to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and increasing my intelligence. What about you?” “You are so out of it, it’s not even funny.”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Dial Emma For Murder

“No need to be sarcastic,” he said. “How can you not be sarcastic in this pharmacy you call a school?”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Hex High School

“But that led to the Number One Problem of all Number One Problems: there was no evidence that a serial killer existed. The only thing I had was the memory of a girl in a half-faint that somebody had whispered in her ear: “Don’t tell nobody nothin’!”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Hex High School

“I’m operating under the assumption that the suicides are actually murders.” “So, you sure ‘operatin’ under the fantasy’ wouldn’t be the better line?”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Hex High School

“Thanks for these. Don’t worry: you’ll get them back.” “Yeah, I just hope the police don’t hand ‘em to me!”
― Hamish De'Lamet, Dial Emma For Murder