Sleep No More Quotes

“A successful murder depends on knowing your victim,”
― P.D. James, Sleep No More

“Not with arsenic, of course. Only a cad would use arsenic. That’s the weapon of suburban poisoners and Victorian adulteresses.”
― P.D. James, Sleep No More

“But Henry said firmly that the combination of Christmas pudding and violent death would be intolerably indigestible; the pudding would keep until next year.”
― P.D. James, Sleep No More

“Never say you know the last word about any human heart.”
― P.D. James, Sleep No More

“Memory is always disjointed, episodic. Some impulse of the mind presses the button and, like a colour transparency, the picture is suddenly thrown on the screen, vivid, immobile, a glowing instant fixed in time between the long stretches of dark emptiness”
― P.D. James, Sleep No More

“And with that touch the memories came flooding back. The verb is trite but accurate; they came like a full tide, sweeping me back to the same day sixty years ago, December 23rd 1936, the day of the murder.”
― P.D. James, Sleep No More

“The essential self is fixed well before the thirteenth birthday. It may be influenced by experience but it is seldom changed.”
― P.D. James, Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales

“To collect me. That is what we can so easily be made to feel at seventy-three; an object, not exactly precious but likely to be brittle, to be carefully collected, conscientiously cared for and as conscientiously returned.”
― P.D. James, Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales

“Unmarried, solitary, unsociable; why should I expect my writing to be any more successful than my life?”
― P.D. James, Sleep No More

“The young seldom lie convincingly. They haven’t had time to practise like the rest of us.”
― P.D. James, Sleep No More