The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)

by Nita Prose

I’ll never understand it—why people find the truth more shocking than lies.

You can be so important, so crucial to the fabric of things and yet be entirely overlooked.

In real life, the actions you take can change the results, from sad to happy, from disappointing to satisfactory, from wrong to right.

Besides, if Rodney’s truly a good egg, he’ll judge by the yolk, not by the shell.

She used to do exactly this, put her hand over mine to draw me out and get me to talk. Her hand let me know that no matter what, everything would be okay.

There’s nothing you can ever do but your best, I hear Gran say in my head.

much of the time I feel like a blind person in a minefield. I’m constantly stumbling upon social improprieties hidden under the surface of things.

They say television is an idle pursuit, but I maintain that I’ve learned many a lesson from Columbo.

People are a mystery that can never be solved.