Martha Grimes Quotations

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.

Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big.

Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little and his mind was formless and without messages.( Elf the tiny kitten Mungo tormented )

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.

Talking's just a nervous habit.