Harriet Steel > Quotes

“She had been unhappy with her husband, but that wasn’t automatically a motive for murder. If it were, half the husbands in the world would be in danger sometimes.”
― Harriet Steel, Trouble in Nuala

“Jane smiled. ‘I’m very proud of you, dear. I hope you know that.’ ‘Thank you, my love.’ He squeezed her hand and chuckled. ‘Although I fear your Miss Marple would probably have solved the crime faster.’ ‘Surely not.”
― Harriet Steel, Trouble in Nuala

“tobacco in the café we went”
― Harriet Steel, City of Dreams

“he leant back in his chair and let his gaze wander over the garden. It was wonderful the way that contemplating it made the troubles of the day dwindle to insignificance.”
― Harriet Steel, Trouble in Nuala

“put a foot under”
― Harriet Steel, City of Dreams

“bureaucracy was a little like Pinocchio’s nose. If the simplification of a process was promised, it usually resulted in quite the opposite outcome; one that was lengthier and more complicated.”
― Harriet Steel, Long Odds in Nuala

“with”
― Harriet Steel, Retreat from Nuala

“forgotten. Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains, His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pine tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thoughts his brain gave birth to we have inherited today; his passions are our cause of life; the joys and sorrows that he knew are our familiar friends – the end from which he fled aghast will surely overtake us also! Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again forever.”
― Harriet Steel, Fatal Finds in Nuala