Ellen Crosby > Quotes

“We all have a right to our private lives; it's living a secret life that gets us in trouble.”
― Ellen Crosby

“He that dies pays all debts. —The Tempest, ACT III, SCENE 2 For most of its nine-thousand-year history, winemaking was only a small step above witchcraft. —GEORGE M. TABER, To Cork or Not to Cork”
― Ellen Crosby, The Vineyard Victims: A Wine Country Mystery

“It got this hot in the south of France, but it was a dry heat, cooled and tempered by the mistral and scented with the powerful fragrances of lavender, thyme, and rosemary. Here the air was so thick I could practically see it and the smell was the dank chemical odor of soil and plants and grass decomposing”
― Ellen Crosby, The Merlot Murders

“They say God gives us families so we don't have to fight with strangers.”
― Ellen Crosby, The Riesling Retribution

“Plato—“No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God.”
― Ellen Crosby, The Merlot Murders

“We are all masters of our own destiny, my mother used to tell me. Even though we can’t always choose what happens to us, we can choose how we respond. In the end, she said, the way we handle the tough things life throws at us—adversity, loss, hardship, rejection—is what defines each of us as a human being. Whether we face them with courage and grace and honesty or choose to feel sorry for ourselves, blame someone else, lash out at life’s injustices with anger and cruelty—that’s what makes us who we are.”
― Ellen Crosby, The Vineyard Victims