The Monogram Murders Quotes

“One cannot do such harm to another and not wound one’s own soul in the process.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“Tell them I've two spare rooms here. It might not be as grand as the Bloxham, but everybody's still alive when they wake up in the morning.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“we cannot help how we feel, but we can choose whether or not to act upon those feelings.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“It is the job of art to replace unhappy true stories with happier inventions.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“I thought to myself that a conversation was a strange thing that could take you almost anywhere. Often you were left stranded miles from where you had started, with no idea about how to get back.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“The Bible, with all its rules, is simply a book written by a person or people. It ought to carry a disclaimer, prominently displayed: 'The word of God, distorted and misrepresented by man.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“I’m not convinced that stories from real life have beginnings and ends, as a matter of fact. Approach them from any vantage point and you’ll see that they stretch endlessly back into the past and spread inexorably forward into the future. One is never quite able to say “That’s that, then,” and draw a line.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“If something is in a person’s head, then it is real,” Poirot said.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“It is hate that makes people kill, Mr Catchpool, not love. Never love. Please be rational.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“I will be angry until my dying day, Mr Catchpool. Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality—that’s something worth raging about.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“In my opinion, a superior mind counts for nothing unless accompanied by a superior heart.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“Jā, skābeklim vajag daudz laika, lai sasniegtu mazās, pelēkās šūniņas! Bet nebēdējiet, galu galā tas ieradīsies tur, kur visvairāk ir vajadzīgs, un nokļūs jūsu smadzeņu spilventiņā.”
― Sofija Hanna, The Monogram Murders

“Seems to me there’s not much time to read about other people’s lives and live your own while you’re at it. If I have to choose, and I reckon I do, I’ll choose living my own life over reading summat about someone else’s.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“Poirot smoothed his mustache, as if he imagined that laughing might have shaken it out of shape.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“Alas, the human mind is a perverse, uncontrollable organ,”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“Hell is empty’?” “‘And all the devils are here,”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“You believe hope to be the enemy of science and not its driving force?”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“Oh, that, certainly, but not only that,” said Margaret. “Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“How in the name of heaven can anything ever be made better by bloodshed and mass slaughter? How can any improvement be brought about by men who wish only to smash and destroy, who cannot speak of their hopes and dreams without their faces twisting in hatred and anger?”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality—that’s something worth raging about.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“I have an unorthodox sense of humor. Charles used to complain about it. I never told him this, but I don’t believe in heaven and hell. Oh, I believe in God, but not the God we hear so much about.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“The food at Pleasant’s was almost as good as the coffee. Indeed, when he considered the two together, Poirot found it hard to believe what he knew to be the case: that everybody who worked in the kitchen here was English. Incroyable.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“¿Por qué será que escribir o hablar sobre un tema pueden ser dos cosas tan diferentes?”
― Sophie Hannah, Los crímenes del monograma

“El arte habla al alma y al corazón, más que a la mente.”
― Sophie Hannah, Los crímenes del monograma

“Una rutina diaria invariable es esencial para una mente sosegada,”
― Sophie Hannah, Los crímenes del monograma

“The wounds you can’t see are the worst.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“I must say, I did not and never would understand why he required such a sizeable audience. It was not a theatrical production.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“does not sound ‘quite simple’ to me,” I said. “It sounds inordinately complicated.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders

“It would not have done Poirot any good whatever to state that his wishes were the precise opposite of hers in this respect. Nothing fascinated him more than the private passions of strangers he would probably never meet again.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders