The Highgate Cemetery Murder Quotes

“In the end, you’re alone with your grief, and it’s the one companion that never truly leaves you.”
― Irina Shapiro, The Highgate Cemetery Murder

“Moments like this reminded him that it was possible to move forward and, if he only waited long enough, maybe life would have meaning once again.”
― Irina Shapiro, The Highgate Cemetery Murder

“With the burial over, the deceased’s room empty of their belongings, and the friends and family returned to their own lives, the grief would eventually become a dull ache rather than an acute pain. It would settle in the chest and wrap itself around the heart, squeezing and bruising until one became so accustomed to it they were able to function almost normally.”
― Irina Shapiro, The Highgate Cemetery Murder

“He wore an expression Sebastian had seen so many times before, and not so long ago on himself—shock, utter disbelief, and the realization that something infinitely precious had been lost and life would never be the same again, this agonizing pain a lifelong companion one hadn’t yet known this morning but would walk with for the rest of one’s days.”
― Irina Shapiro, The Highgate Cemetery Murder

“I wager she would have made an excellent doctor.” “You think women can be doctors, Mr. Ramsey?” “I think women can be anything, given the chance. Even police detectives.”
― Irina Shapiro, The Highgate Cemetery Murder

“but life was full of surprises, both good and bad, and he made every effort to keep an open mind and treat every day as if it were a blank page in the book that was life.”
― Irina Shapiro, The Highgate Cemetery Murder

“No woman was safe, especially a woman like Polly, who was viewed solely as a useful commodity”
― Irina Shapiro, The Highgate Cemetery Murder

“She wasn’t impressed with dandies, whom she found ridiculous and effete. She liked men who looked the part and were handsome in a classic, solid way.”
― Irina Shapiro, The Highgate Cemetery Murder

“Gemma thought the doctors felt threatened by the brave women who not only had experience of emergency surgery and post-operative care but had survived conditions beyond all imagining. She”
― Irina Shapiro, The Highgate Cemetery Murder

“and every prostitute in London will live in fear of conducting her business. Bad for the economy, Bell. And what’s bad for the economy and for the gentlemen who enjoy a bit of night sport and have the ear of those in government is bad for the police service. Do I make myself understood?”
― Irina Shapiro, The Highgate Cemetery Murder