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The List of Suspicious Things
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Jennie Godfrey32,822 ratings, 4.18 average rating, 3,585 reviews
The List of Suspicious Things Quotes
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“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.”
― The List of Suspicious Things
― 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.”
― The List of Suspicious Things
― 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.”
― The List of Suspicious Things
― The List of Suspicious Things
“there was more to be afraid of from the living than the dead.”
― The List of Suspicious Things
― 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.”
― The List of Suspicious Things
― 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?”
― The List of Suspicious Things
'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?”
― 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.”
― The List of Suspicious Things
'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.”
― The List of Suspicious Things
