What a Way to Go Quotes

“It’s a mistake men often make, thinking their wives are stupid when they’re actually just full of rage.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“As Balzac said, “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“They’d been in on it together, right from the start. I hope it was worth it, truly I do. Because I would have my revenge; no man will decide how my story ends. Least of all one who calls a woman like Penny his ‘minxy mistress’. Anthony might’ve have been a terrible disappointment, but at least he had high standards.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“And when I say that my brother is doing something so appalling that I’ll wait in this place forever to wreak my revenge, I’m telling you the truth.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“Those school fees weren’t entirely for nothing if Jemima somehow ended up being the one to solve my murder.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“You need help, seriously. This is an illness, a mental problem. My second cousin’s wife’s father suffers, but with the right meds—”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“All rich people are dull, it doesn’t matter if it’s money passed down through the centuries or cash made by some wheeler-dealer in the last five minutes. They assume their money makes them interesting, in the same way a model thinks her beauty is enough to get her through”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“But the real advantage wealth brings is how brilliantly it can exempt you from the normal rules that everyone else has to follow.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“Just because the walls had fallen in, didn’t mean she had to go around looking like someone who had finally been allowed out on day release.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“The house had begun to look like student digs; these people were absolutely useless at basic survival without me, or more accurately, without my money.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“Anthony’s mess won’t affect you, dear.’ As if he was some Dickensian master of the house.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“Let an optimistic 25-year-old deal with his old age, if he got out of prison in time to find one desperate enough to take him on.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“Direct your anger at your father. Anthony was a careless man – with feelings and with finances. It looks like he emptied the trusts about six weeks before he died, all in one go. Obviously he’s not here to tell us why, and as usual Olivia is having to deal with his poor choices.’ He was in his absolute element here, almost vibrating with pomposity.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“In an odd way, I felt as if I’d been released from a job I’d hated. Being married to Anthony was a round-the-clock gig with no days off.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“And if Giles had shoved him like that, do you think he’d be the first person on the scene when people heard the commotion? Of course not, he’d have scarpered up to the marquees and blended in with the crowd.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“Lyra laughed far too loudly, while Clara made retching sounds. So they knew what he was like and still they favoured him. Bastards.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“don’t trust the mainstream media. Journalists literally went to the same schools as the people in power, you think they’re going to risk exposing their own?”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“Her Twitter follows showed me that she was interested in left-wing politics, climate change and feminism. A typical twenty-something posh girl, rebelling without really doing anything. She’d retweeted a post about rising”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“We might not sleep in the way the alive do, but that doesn’t mean a good thread count is suddenly irrelevant.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“Brancetti was a committed socialist, who created the work as a rallying cry to the working man and I bought it because I knew it would’ve enraged him to see it on my desk.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“The watch I’d had on just hours ago. Cheeky fucker must’ve taken it off me when I was dead, like a grave robber.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go

“I’m glad I wasn’t, it meant I spent the evening drinking Champagne like water and being so fulsomely praised to high heaven you’d have thought I was the dictator of a small but prosperous country.”
― Bella Mackie, What a Way to Go