Martha Grimes Quotes

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It was possible to talk to Agatha and read simultaneously.

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He flashed that smile, piratical, conspiratorial, like a man with a knife between his teeth.

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In the sanctum sanctorum of dusty men's clubs... rigor mortis seemed a cause rather than an effect of death.

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

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He was the type who'd be any man's mirror: you couldn't help looking at him without wanting to straighten your tie and curse your tailor.

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

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You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

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Fictional characters, he had lately found, were generally more interesting dinner companions than flesh-and-blood ones.

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In the manner of all humans, who are convinced the one call gone unanswered must be The Call, the hot-line from the Universe, Jury weakened and plucked up the receiver.

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Wiggins was about to answer, and seeing he might be divulging privileged information, shut up like a drawer.

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

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Writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

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

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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 )

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