Robert Thorogood > Quotes

“she couldn’t help noticing everything about her existence seemed to be defined by someone who wasn’t her.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“If she had one piece of advice she’d give her younger self, it would be: don’t get old.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“But you make your bed in life, don’t you? Sometimes you just have to lie in it. I endured.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“The whole point of living on your own was that you didn’t have to share your home with anyone.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“The Church of England was the perfect metaphor for the country as a whole, she felt: pleasing to the eye, staunchly old-fashioned, and waning very much in popularity.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“She couldn’t remember the last time she’d voluntarily invited someone into her house. What surprised her was how natural it felt. How easy it had been. Life is full of surprises, she thought to herself.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Judith knew nothing about cars and cared even less, so all she could tell was it was gray in color, and it was gleaming, not a spot of dirt on it anywhere.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Judith’s mind was scrambled. The “thinking scotch” she’d been drinking had very much turned into “unthinking scotch” sometime around ten-ish,”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“We’ve got one thing going for us, haven’t we?” “What’s that?” “We’re invisible.” “How do you mean?” “It’s like I said. We’re ‘older’ women, aren’t we? No one notices women over the age of about forty.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Better to welcome someone infrequently than pressure them into not coming at all.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“a good part of her mind vowed she’d very definitely clean her house more often— while a separate part of her mind, at exactly the same time, knew she never would.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Queen of Poisons

“Becks’s eyes widened in amazement. “That’s not possible, she does yoga!” Judith wasn’t sure she’d heard correctly. “Are you saying people who do yoga can’t commit murder?” she asked. “Yes!”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“and—most suspicious of all if you ask me—she’s training for a triathlon. I mean, you can’t do that level of physical exercise without having deep psychological problems.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Killing of Polly Carter

“Then maybe,” Judith said, deciding to go in for the kill, “you could tell us all about Liz Curtis over a nice cup of tea?” Becks’s smile froze. As a trueborn Englishwoman, she knew there were no circumstances under which she could ever refuse the request of a cup of tea.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“I’ll admit it, I’m not always honest, but I’m not a bad man.” “You are a bad man.” “But not a criminal.” “You’re literally a criminal.”
― Robert Thorogood, Murder on the Marlow Belle

“everything about her existence seemed to be defined by someone who wasn’t her. She was the kids’ mum, the vicar’s wife, and the house’s wife for that matter.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Judith usually found it a chore fighting against the world that men had constructed entirely for their own benefit, but sometimes it was a sheer pleasure, and today, she decided, was going to be one of those days.”
― Robert Thorogood, Murder on the Marlow Belle

“And sorry about the ‘all-male’ thing; it’s not how I’d like things to be.” “I’m sure that’s what you tell yourself, and yet here we are in your all-male club.”
― Robert Thorogood, Murder on the Marlow Belle

“For the first time, Judith thought she saw panic dart in Danny’s eyes.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“can’t say I knew Iqbal well. We rarely saw him here. Which is fine by me. Better to welcome someone infrequently than pressure them into not coming at all.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“And you know what the kicker was?”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“So Oliver told me I had to write to anyone famous or rich – or preferably both – that I could lay claim to and ask them to help fund me. I was dead against it at first, but he showed me on the internet how this was standard practice. When you go to drama school, you ask for help from rich actors, and then, if you ever become a rich actor, you help pay for others to go.”
― Robert Thorogood, Murder on the Marlow Belle

“When she married, she couldn’t wait to put on her wedding ring and take her husband’s name. But all these years later, without even her own name to cling to, she felt rudderless, cast adrift.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“clear she already”
― Robert Thorogood, Death Comes to Marlow

“Who was she kidding? She loved living on her own— not that she did, of course, she had her cat Daniel, and Judith was very much of the opinion that a cat was all the company a person needed.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Queen of Poisons

“He wasn’t left anything—and I was, that’s all that matters. It should all come to me!”
― Robert Thorogood, Death Comes to Marlow

“Becks was the vicar of Marlow’s wife,”
― Robert Thorogood, Murder on the Marlow Belle

“Cancel the banana sandwich. There’s been a murder.”
― Robert Thorogood, A Meditation on Murder

“during”
― Robert Thorogood, Murder on the Marlow Belle

“Не існує узгоджених правил етикету, як продовжувати перше знайомство двох жінок із середнього класу, якщо одна з них допіру ховалася в шафі.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club