Dorothy Simpson > Quotes

“The ideal way to live would be always to treat each day, each encounter with loved ones, as one's last. Only thus could one avoid the endless self-reproach, self-recrimination, with which so many flagellate themselves after a sudden loss.”
― Dorothy Simpson, Puppet For A Corpse

“Perhaps being an actress means that in a situation like this people will constantly be questioning whether the emotions you display are genuine.”
― Dorothy Simpson

“A good detective not only has to be intelligent, persevering and prepared to do enless boring routine work, he also needs one other quality: Intuition. I see it rather as the ability to make connections which are there but are not immediately apparent. Subterranean connections.”
― Dorothy Simpson, Puppet For A Corpse

“Why it should feel worse to speak ill of the dead than the living I can't imagine.”
― Dorothy Simpson, Puppet For A Corpse

“Murder could be a psychological alternative to suicide.”
― Dorothy Simpson, Puppet For A Corpse

“Don’t try taking over the Almighty’s job,” he said. “He’s much better at it than you”
― Dorothy Simpson, The Night She Died

“Life is not in the habit of producing just what we want when we want it. For every exciting, challenging task there are usually a hundred dull ones to be tackled."

Detective Thanet- Puppet for a Corpse”
― Dorothy Simpson, Puppet For A Corpse

“Relationships do not remain static and what might have been satisfying to them both in the past sufficed no longer.”
― Dorothy Simpson, The Inspector Thanet Mysteries Volume One: The Night She Died / Six Feet Under / Puppet for a Corpse

“She would have lacked that inner warmth which somehow survives despite the relentless drudgery and constant proximity to human suffering. Her patients to her would have been flesh, bones, blood, not people.”
― Dorothy Simpson, Puppet For A Corpse

“Look, you know the anger is unconstructive, don’t you? So you have to defuse it. And you do this either by trying to understand your own reaction, just why you are getting so annoyed, or by asking yourself why it is he finds it necessary to behave so provocatively. In this particular instance the answer wasn’t hard to find. Nobody likes to be pitied. Better, by far, to make people angry, irritate them so that they won’t come back again …”
― Dorothy Simpson, The Inspector Thanet Mysteries Volume Three: Element of Doubt / Suspicious Death / Dead by Morning

“Look, you know the anger is unconstructive, don’t you? So you have to defuse it. And you do this either by trying to understand your own reaction, just why you are getting so annoyed, or by asking yourself why it is he finds it necessary to behave so provocatively.”
― Dorothy Simpson, The Inspector Thanet Mysteries Volume Three: Element of Doubt / Suspicious Death / Dead by Morning

“I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it."

-Detective Thanet.”
― Dorothy Simpson, Puppet For A Corpse

“If someone is determined to kill himself, nothing will stop him.”
― Dorothy Simpson