Miranda James > Quotes

“With their broad chests and muscular bodies, maine coons are the defensive tackles of the cat world.”
― Miranda James, Murder Past Due

“A good book is a good book, I’ve always thought, whatever the genre.”
― Miranda James, File M for Murder

“A good book is a good book, I’ve always thought, whatever the genre. I had no patience for snobbery when it came to fiction reading.”
― Miranda James, File M for Murder

“Good people are good no matter what kind of family they have.”
― Miranda James, Out of Circulation

“I’ve seen every episode of Murder, She Wrote, and I adore Angela Lansbury to pieces. But you’d have to be insane to let Jessica Fletcher within ten yards of your house.”
― Miranda James, File M for Murder

“People who don’t have pets don’t understand the kind of bond we pet lovers have with our animals.”
― Miranda James, Classified as Murder

“Carolyn Haines writes about in her ‘Bones’ books.”
― Miranda James, Classified as Murder

“But sometimes fathers have a hard time letting their sons be their own men. I think some fathers feel their sons have to be just like them in order to justify their own choices in life.”
― Miranda James, Murder Past Due

“When you don’t have regular contact with friends, even the”
― Miranda James, Twelve Angry Librarians

“friends, you don’t see how their lives have changed, how their opinions may have altered, and what might motivate them to do things you never would have believed they could”
― Miranda James, Twelve Angry Librarians

“I knew some would think me foolish for buying Christmas presents for the cats, but I probably wouldn’t like those people anyway.”
― Miranda James, Six Cats a Slayin'

“After the Armistice Ball, the first book by Catriona McPherson,”
― Miranda James, Digging Up the Dirt

“Heyer is wonderful, isn’t she?” I chuckled. “I have to confess, I love a good historical romance novel occasionally myself, and there’s nobody better than Heyer. I like to reread her, too.”
― Miranda James, File M for Murder

“My parents soon learned that sending me to bed and not allowing me to read there was the worst punishment I could receive.”
― Miranda James, Hiss Me Deadly

“eldritch words, but Veronica”
― Miranda James, The Silence of the Library

“Ellery Adams Books by the Bay”
― Miranda James, Out of Circulation

“I’ve seen every episode of Murder, She Wrote, and I adore Angela Lansbury to pieces. But you’d have to be insane to let Jessica Fletcher within ten yards of your house. Talk about harbingers of death.”
― Miranda James, File M for Murder

“Margery Allingham, The Tiger in the Smoke.”
― Miranda James, Six Cats a Slayin'

“assignation.”
― Miranda James, Arsenic and Old Books

“The thirst for knowledge can lead one down so many interesting byways. I’ve traveled many of them over the years. You might say this library has been my travel agent.”
― Miranda James, Classified as Murder

“Blessings in life come in different guises; if you're lucky, they sometimes have sassy mouths and big hearts.
--Dedication”
― Miranda James, Bless Her Dead Little Heart

“Axminster”
― Miranda James, Bless Her Dead Little Heart

“Charlie. I’m so sorry.”
― Miranda James, No Cats Allowed

“There was not a book in sight—to me, always the sign of a person with whom I probably had little in common.”
― Miranda James, Six Cats a Slayin'

“Lady Bountiful went swanning over—my great-aunt’s words, you understand”
― Miranda James, Arsenic and Old Books

“wanted her to himself.” That was never a good sign for a relationship, I thought. That behavior was typical of abusers who wanted to isolate their victims from any friends or family.”
― Miranda James, What the Cat Dragged In

“What do we do now? Invite them all over for tea in the library where you do your best Hercule Poirot imitation and reveal all?” Stewart’s facetious question was directed at me.”
― Miranda James, File M for Murder

“My parents had taught me that a gentleman, a man of honor, doesn’t push himself forward in order to get attention. His behavior and his deeds should speak for themselves. A man who goes around calling attention to himself, seeking glory, is no gentleman. And to my parents, not being a gentleman was a bad thing indeed. I had”
― Miranda James, Claws for Concern

“sat down, cater-corner”
― Miranda James, Murder Past Due