Robin Stevens > Quotes

“After all, grown-ups always underestimate children. Children never underestimate each other.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“One of the rules of the Detective Society is that we never say no to tea.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“It really is silly when adults try to protect children, as though we are not on our way to becoming adults ourselves.”
― Robin Stevens

“There were always things lurking, ready to throw your life off balance.”
― Robin Stevens, First Class Murder

“I don’t like to see girls wasting their talents. You are both clever, that I can see. And if you have brains, you ought to use them. It isn’t good for women to be ignored and side-lined.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“Murder is always foolish,' said the Inspector. 'If people only murdered each other rationally, I would be out of a job.”
― Robin Stevens

“Growing up, I thought, seemed to be something that mostly happened when you weren’t looking.”
― Robin Stevens, A Spoonful of Murder

“It is funny how public the English are about disliking their families, even when it is not really true. Love is a secret to them, hate, far less so.”
― Robin Stevens, Jolly Foul Play

“Sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to, to protect things we love.”
― Robin Stevens, Top Marks for Murder

“I thought to myself that, if life was acting, it was a pity that I was no good at acting at all.”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“That is the problem with imagination – the more you use it, the more you see that the world in your head is not really the world you live in at all.”
― Robin Stevens, A Spoonful of Murder

“Tell that boy that we are detectives, and we have solved FIVE MURDER CASES!’ snarled Daisy. I looked at her, astonished – apparently, she can tell when the Detective Society is being demeaned in any language.”
― Robin Stevens, A Spoonful of Murder

“promising!) was oddly disappointing, but what happened”
― Robin Stevens, Murder Most Unladylike

“I realized all over again how odd the English are. No matter how bad things get, they can always make light of them.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“There were carollers singing beside King’s College Chapel as we passed, their breath smoking with the song.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“I suddenly wondered whether growing up only meant you were older, not more wise.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“It was full of the most delicious displays, piled high with pink and white fancies, cakes piped with cream and scattered with nuts, and absolutely heaps of swirled golden-brown buns. They were studded with raisins and dripping with syrup. My mouth watered. It had been hours since those train sandwiches, their cheese slightly warm and their chutney gluey. Beyond the buns I saw tables full of people enjoying splendid teas. My stomach gurgled.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“You are getting quite queenly, Hazel Wong,”
― Robin Stevens, A Spoonful of Murder

“For once, I simply needed her because she was my best friend.”
― Robin Stevens, A Spoonful of Murder

“I was particularly amazed because boys, to her, are usually simply less interesting versions of girls.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“thought to myself that, if life was acting, it was a pity that I was no good at acting at all.”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“My good sir,' he said, 'do you know to whom you are speaking? I am the Prince of Bengal and these are my friends, the Princess of Kowloon and the Duke of Massachusettes. We are waiting for my father, the Maharajah, to come out of this bookshop so he can take us to the Ritz for tea. Do you intend to prevent us from going about our business?”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“Miss Lappet was not the murderer.
Neither were Miss Hopkins or The One.
It was Miss Griffin.”
― Robin Stevens

“GOODNESS ME!’ said Daisy very loudly beside me. ‘IS THERE PRAWN IN THIS DUMPLING?”
― Robin Stevens, A Spoonful of Murder

“I blushed, feeling very un-queen-like.”
― Robin Stevens, A Spoonful of Murder

“But,’ Mr Mansour cried, ‘you are girls! Girls cannot be in the police!”
― Robin Stevens, Death Sets Sail

“Tea had been set out on the table, ready for our arrival. It was simple but delicious: muffins, ham, boiled eggs, and toast and butter, with Christmas cake for dessert.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“we never say no to tea.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“I know you think that every dreadful thing that happens in the world is because you didn't stop it, but the truth is that dreadful things would happen anyway, even if you had never been born. The excellent fact is that you were born, and that means that you have the chance to make the world a slightly less horrid place”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“You are still my best friend in all the world, and the best detective I know who is not me.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder