Daniel Stainback > Daniel's Quotes

“I had an uneasy feeling we might be asked to spend the approaching Christmas with Beatrice. Perhaps I could have influenza.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Bongo is an excellent watchdog, by which I mean that he will watch very alertly as the serial killer breaks into the house and skins me.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

“I’m a freelance editor. I turn decent books into decently readable books and hopeless books into hopeless books with better grammar.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

“Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return”
― Marjorie Bowen

“Already she meant everything to him but he'd completely forgotten her name.”
― Ethel Lina White, The Lady Vanishes

“People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase