Hiss and Hers Quotes

“I need to believe in something perfect and unchanging in this imperfect world. Humans are apt to make other humans into gods and being human they let them down. I sometimes think that inside everyone is a desire for a spiritual belief and sometimes it gets twisted. Why else would people worship, say, Hitler or Elvis Presley?”
― M.C. Beaton, Hiss and Hers

“I didn’t know double jeopardy didn’t apply anymore,” said Charles. “There was this chap, Billy Dunlop,” said Simon, “who was charged in nineteen-eighty-nine with the murder of twenty-two-year-old Julie Hogg. Julie’s mother, Mrs. Ming, ran a fifteen-year campaign to change the double jeopardy rule and finally succeeded. In two thousand and six, Dunlop was charged with the murder again and found guilty.”
― M.C. Beaton, Hiss and Hers

“I wondered if George talked to you about anyone he was afraid of?” “No. We did have a laugh, though. Always joking and laughing, that was my George.” “Your George?” Agatha’s eyes sharpened. “Were you close?” Not her, surely, thought Agatha. The woman hasn’t even got her own teeth! “Bit of a kiss and a cuddle,” said Matilda complacently. “But that’s fellows for you. Had to fight ’em off all my life.” My self-worth is lower than whale shit, thought Agatha bitterly. All the trouble and expense I went to to try to lure him.”
― M.C. Beaton, Hiss and Hers

“We’re supposed to get a whiff as we walk past you, not when we drive past you at sixty miles an hour.”
― M.C. Beaton, Hiss and Hers