The List of Suspicious Things Quotes

“My experience was that grown-ups always thought I was too young for all the interesting things and too old for all the things that brought me comfort.”
― Jennie Godfrey, The List of Suspicious Things

“The thing about having a best friend is that somewhere along the line they become a part of you. Like an extra limb. And if you lose them, you have to learn to do everything again without that limb.”
― Jennie Godfrey, The List of Suspicious Things

“I don’t know if any of the people we know are suspicious or whether they’re just trying to live their lives.”
― Jennie Godfrey, The List of Suspicious Things

“realized, just for a moment, that it was possible to come back from the worst thing that had ever happened to you.”
― Jennie Godfrey, The List of Suspicious Things

“Adults were always doing this, in my experience, saying one thing and meaning another, the truth a blur in between.”
― Jennie Godfrey, The List of Suspicious Things

“She looked so beautiful and happy my heart ached for her, but I felt glad she had been so loved, and knew my life was better for having known her.”
― Jennie Godfrey, The List of Suspicious Things

“there was more to be afraid of from the living than the dead.”
― Jennie Godfrey, The List of Suspicious Things

“What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said.
'How are we going to catch the Yorkshire Ripper, when the police haven't even managed to?'
I sighed. Her questioning my ideas was a recent and unwelcome element to our friendship. But it was a valid point. How would we catch him? We needed some sort of plan, a way of gathering clues and putting them into order. I thought about what the policeman had said about structure, and then about Aunty Jean and her notebook, and the idea I had hardened like toffee. I knew exactly what we needed to do.
'We'll make a list,' I said. 'A list of the people and things we see that are suspicious. And then... And then we'll investigate them.”
― Jennie Godfrey, The List of Suspicious Things

“Three rings—As phone calls were expensive in the UK in the 1970s”
― Jennie Godfrey, The List of Suspicious Things

“I was struck by the irony that she didn't like the spotlight when nature had determined she would be in it, while I was desperate for someone to notice me.”
― Jennie Godfrey, The List of Suspicious Things