Amita Murray > Quotes

“She looks bored. “Why does everyone we talk to automatically start feeling guilty? Four nights ago, about quarter past ten-ish, you were seen walking past the vic’s house.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“You never speak to any of us, you don’t come to social events, in fact, you don’t even acknowledge invitations. You barely know our names. When we ask you to sign petitions for the upkeep of the local area, you don’t acknowledge those either. You don’t contribute to the community. Why, may I ask, this sudden interest in a local resident? Anyway, if you must know, the only one I bumped into other than you was that new man, the dishy one, the writer.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“She widens her eyes. “You must be the only one in Trucklewood not to know about the murder. Do you not leave your house? Not Craig Yards, the nephew, but Tobias Yards, the uncle.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“My mum Surya broke into tears and said, That’s terribly rude (she always sounded more British when she was telling you how you had hurt her feelings”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“rub my forehead. There are more secrets flying about this village than balls in Wimbledon.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“It’s better to be needy than to die alone,” she says in a huff before she walks off. Her words make me catch my breath. It’s better to be needy than to die alone. I stare after her.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“If I forgave my parents, what would be left of me? Of the person I’d built brick by brick over the years since they’d gone from my life? Of the person I’d vowed to be?”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“can’t help wondering if she would have died if I had visited her more, seen more of her in the last few years.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“A Bellatrix Lestrange cake with crazy hair and murderous eyes. (Just to be clear, I’ve tried to make ones that don’t look like Helena Bonham Carter – not because I don’t love the woman, I do, you can’t not, but because, let’s face it, the Harry Potter books are the real deal, the films aren’t, but people look gut-wrenchingly disappointed when I do that, so I stick to the film version of the character”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“There are a lot of things someone creative can do on their own. Lace knitting. Reading regency romances that always end happily. Creating macabre cakes (which I do for a living). Watching back-to-back episodes of Killing Eve. Taking endless woodsy walks. Baking cakes and tarts, eating them by myself while doing some of the above-mentioned”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“They don’t. But you have the opportunity. The best one of the lot, for obvious reasons.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“She rolls her eyes. “Will you quit the idea that everyone vaguely brown is in love with you? And anyway, even if I were in love with you, I’m on duty. And you’re now one of the top two suspects.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“But in baking, I could escape all that. I could be quiet and still and myself and no one cared what I did or said, I had to answer to no one and no one could turn away from me.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“The impatience and anger that was always there when Brendan so much as looked at his daughter. God, the disgust on his face, that was the hardest to bear. I stopped myself from slapping him in the face so many times.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Has it occurred to them that a long string of flimsy yellow tape isn’t the most effective way of keeping people out of places?”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“I’m now, at the age of twenty-seven, the person I’ve wanted to be since I was eight and left to live with my Auntie Meera, dropped off by my parents like a limp quiche that no one wanted to buy at the church bake sale, discarded like a wet nappy.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“You know, you’re the unfriendliest person this side of the Empire State Building, and now all of a sudden, you’re everyone’s best friend. I don’t get it.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“And it was all coming out of Tallulah’s brain, because the girl gang from Hades was all hair and no braincells.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Tobias ate caviar almost on a daily basis. He handpicked his Champagne from grower estates in southern France that cut it with honeysuckle and hazelnuts and cherries, and he drank it with Benedictine. His hand lotions were tailor made for him with saffron – do you know”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“People who do and say nice things, who step aside to let others pass, the ones who open doors and thank people, who smile and act as if everything is fine.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“The man can read me like a book. It’s most definitely better to avoid him in the future. Who knows the kinds of things that’ll pop out of me if I stick around? Much better to make myself scarce and never see the man – or his eyes, or his arms – again. I turn to walk away, run, if possible.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“The half-brown thing may have been okay, especially in an area like Primrose Hill where there was a rapidly growing population of wealthy Indian people, and increasingly, mixed children too. But the twitching, the anxiety that was visible to all, the shaking, the hiding – I was a marked girl before I uttered my first word.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Not so, my policy. When I vas hiding from the Russians, I learned to think of every man, vooman and child as guilty, until you prove that they are innocent, which most of the time, you could not. So.” I look severely at her. “That’s a lovely philosophy.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Men are good at compartmentalizing. They don’t always show their feelings.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Being an arty sort, my aunt had moved to Trucklewood a year ago, hoping to fit smoothly into the self-proclaimed bohemian community, supposedly made up of artists, young families and aging couples that were always away on cruises.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“I take a breath to brace myself, so I don’t say something impatient. “You can eat what you want, Tallulah. No one has the right to say anything about it.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“get everything I need delivered. Even that is too much human contact for me on most days. I’m all for drones making deliveries. I’d invest money in the enterprise if I ever thought about things like investments and shares and dividends, whatever they are.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Craig is one of them: works in the city, in finance, goes to the pub every evening after work and on holiday once a year, has Netflix subscriptions, is never late paying his bills, gets his annual health check-up done on time, complains about Brexit, the changeable weather and how he doesn’t work out enough, and jokes that train delays make us, Britain, no better than a third world country.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Why didn’t I visit her more often? And why was I haranguing her about how nice she was? It was like something visceral in me couldn’t stand it, though, watching her talk like that. It was unbearable to see her being nice to someone who seemed to have not a stitch of kindness for her in return.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“know how you people make your money, you take advantage of other people’s pain. I know how it works. This went on for nearly an hour.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death