Emma Jameson > Quotes

“Yes. Mind you, sociopaths experience many of the same needs we all do," Hetheridge continued. "They attend school, maintain jobs. I believe they can even love, in the way little children love—a combination of wanting and demanding. But sociopaths have no conscience, no innate sense of responsibility toward others. They cannot believe other people have separate lives beyond the sociopath's own needs and expectations. Sociopaths are incapable of empathy, though the more intelligent ones are frequently able to fake it. And that's the key.”
― Emma Jameson, Blue Murder

“Arthritis, he had long ago learned, could only be managed with two things: denial, and an absolute refusal to stop moving.”
― Emma Jameson, Ice Blue

“Your lip looks better, Kate. Um…." He lifted his hands as if to rake them through his hair, stopping just before he ruined a look that must have taken beaucoup product to achieve. "Hiya, Harvey. Sad about the guv, eh? I mean Lord… I mean, him. The fact is, before we begin…." "Are you off your meds? Sit down," Kate barked. "Yes, I appreciate the invitation, it's lovely to be here, but the fact is—" "Deepal!" A woman called from the front parlor. "I won't be hidden out here! It's undignified!" "… I brought my mum," Paul concluded. "When I told her I was popping by the guv's—I mean, Lord—I mean, his place, she wouldn't take no for an answer." "You're sacked," Tony said. "Too late. Mum," Paul said, turning to intercept Sharada in the doorway, "Of course you've met, um, er, Tony, and Kate. This is Mrs. Snell, who used to be his secretary, and that's Harvey, the manservant. Like Alfred to Batman." "Deepal, I write romances. I know what a manservant is." Evading her”
― Emma Jameson, Black & Blue

“Clearly being an author drove otherwise normal people mad. Especially when combined with Facebook.”
― Emma Jameson, Deadly Trio: 3 English Mysteries: Ice Blue / Blue Murder / Something Blue

“We tend to assume the secret conduct of others mirrors our own. That can make us blind to possibilities we consider verboten.”
― Emma Jameson, Marriage Can Be Murder

“She was referring to 1290’s Edict of Expulsion, which had banned all Jews from England. In those days, Jews were shut out of all but the most hated jobs, like rent collecting and moneylending. As their unpopularity grew, rumors spread: Jews were plotting against the government, spying for foreign countries, growing rich off the backs of Christians.”
― Emma Jameson, Bones Buried Deep

“behind”
― Emma Jameson, Marriage Can Be Murder

“utterance of "our guests," there could be little doubt. His new in-laws, the Wakefields. What else could cause”
― Emma Jameson, Black & Blue

“Oh, aye,” the constable sighed, his latent Scots accent breaking through. “The lasses get themselves up like prostitutes, probably because the lads mince about like poofters. Some generation. You catch the killer, you ask him why he stopped at two, all right?”
― Emma Jameson, Blue Murder

“Yet there she was, his mum, sobbing into a crumpled Kleenex like her heart would break. Clearly being an author drove otherwise normal people mad. Especially when combined with Facebook.”
― Emma Jameson, Blue Murder

“when it came to mind games, even between intellectually well-matched players, Hetheridge knew the amoral player would always have the advantage. "I”
― Emma Jameson, Something Blue

“Of course I know her. I follow her on Twitter." "Does she follow you back?" "No, but last week she retweeted my retweet. We're like this." Sharada held up crossed fingers. "Now, we'll be late if we don't find that taxi stand. Can we get on?”
― Emma Jameson, Black & Blue

“To do any less would be inconsistent with my role as Goddess of Everything.”
― Emma Jameson, Something Blue

“eleven”
― Emma Jameson, Dr. Bones and the Lost Love Letter

“Some people consider themselves human beings put on this earth to have a spiritual experience. Other people say they're spiritual beings born to have a human experience. Me?" Riley smiled, green eyes flashing. "I'm a horse having a human experience.”
― Emma Jameson, Something Blue

“in. Forgive the mess. Riley said my clutter”
― Emma Jameson, Deadly Trio: 3 English Mysteries: Ice Blue / Blue Murder / Something Blue

“radio. As Hetheridge and Bhar moved closer, the constable angled his torch at the ground,”
― Emma Jameson, Blue Murder

“as calm and fresh at 12:42 as she had upon arrival, stood next to Hughes, deep in what appeared to be whispered conversation with another man. Their faces were turned from the camera, making lip-reading impossible. "I don't know if she's bored and walks away to make a point," PC Gulls said. "Or if she and Hughes agreed ahead of time to part at a certain hour. There's no evidence, in the footage leading up to this, of anything amiss between them. Even after Thora Hughes's confrontation, Ms. Freemont seems perfectly serene. But look, off she goes, while Hughes keeps right on talking to Leo Makepeace, the hotel manager. And watch this. Hotel cameras follow her to the fifth floor. She goes to her room, engages the security devices, and doesn't emerge until the next day. Another elimination." "Unless there's a conspiracy!" someone called. "Well. Of course." PC Gulls grinned as if nothing thrilled her more than wide-ranging”
― Emma Jameson, Something Blue

“stiffing”
― Emma Jameson, A Death at Seascape House

“Selfishness. Parts of my life are only for me. As long as I hang on to my selfish side, Maura can't destroy me. If I ever decided helping her was more important than helping me—or Henry, or Ritchie—I'd be lost. Maura would chew me up and spit me out, just like everyone else who's ever gotten close to her.”
― Emma Jameson, Blue Murder

“When people let you down, there were always books.”
― Emma Jameson, A Death at Seascape House

“Hetheridge”
― Emma Jameson, Ice Blue

“Hetheridge reflected that in his line of work, having children was unnecessary. Overseeing detectives was remarkably similar, with one exception: detectives never seemed to grow up. "Vera.”
― Emma Jameson, Something Blue

“no point. It's hopeless!" Henry twisted in Tony's grip, wild enough to break free. Perhaps their weekly fencing sessions had begun paying dividends of strength and agility. That, or his fury was borne of true desperation, not just another boyish disappointment. "Henry." The word filled the kitchen, echoing off tiled floors, gleaming countertops, and a multitude of copper pots and pans, relics from his grandmother's day. How long had it been since a child threw a tantrum in Wellegrave House's preternaturally serene kitchen? So long Tony could practically”
― Emma Jameson, Black & Blue

“rankled.”
― Emma Jameson, Untrue Blue

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness.” Wise words, and something they’d never had trouble with before.”
― Emma Jameson, Blue Christmas

“put”
― Emma Jameson, Bones Buried Deep

“A man without work is a man without purpose.”
― Emma Jameson, Marriage Can Be Murder

“So low that on certain days, I have to force myself just to get out of bed in the morning. When our head does us in, it’s as real as appendicitis. And sometimes just as deadly.”
― Emma Jameson, A Death at Candlewick Castle

“birds here sing readily enough without me buying them sheet music.”
― Emma Jameson, Marriage Can Be Murder