Death in the Spotlight Quotes

“I thought to myself that, if life was acting, it was a pity that I was no good at acting at all.”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“My good sir,' he said, 'do you know to whom you are speaking? I am the Prince of Bengal and these are my friends, the Princess of Kowloon and the Duke of Massachusettes. We are waiting for my father, the Maharajah, to come out of this bookshop so he can take us to the Ritz for tea. Do you intend to prevent us from going about our business?”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“thought to myself that, if life was acting, it was a pity that I was no good at acting at all.”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“I know you think that every dreadful thing that happens in the world is because you didn't stop it, but the truth is that dreadful things would happen anyway, even if you had never been born. The excellent fact is that you were born, and that means that you have the chance to make the world a slightly less horrid place”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“And Hazel Wong too,’ I heard Alexander add. ‘AND HAZEL WONG TOO!’ boomed Uncle Felix, and my heart did another strange flip in my chest. Alexander had remembered me. Me. Not Daisy, me.”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“I will make sure it is. You’re good girls, and good detectives,’ said Aunt Lucy quietly. ‘You deserve one more chance. Now – promise me not to die?”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“not a genius, because only I am that, but very close to it.”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“Oh, how frustrating!’ said Daisy. ‘I might have guessed you’d notice. But I do so hate it, Hazel. Love is idiotic, and I despise it, but Martita is simply so pretty.”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“I can't wait until I'm twenty. I shall go dancing all night and not bother with sleep at all.”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“She has washerwoman’s skin, and, since she was stuck face down, lividity has caused the face and neck to have pronounced purple discoloration and swelling. It is impossible to tell much else from the body, I’m afraid.”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“pronounced”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“don’t tell me to think more quickly!”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookest pale.”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“I’m here, darlings,”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“Why do you always ruin the nice things you say?’ I cried. ‘Because I’m English,’ said Daisy. ‘I should think you’d understand that by now.”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“But it took Inigo a while to get to the murder. He could not stop talking about the Rue and its successes. In a way, I thought, that was rather like a magician doing a trick, making you watch the bright thing in his right hand so you will not see the truly important thing in his left.”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight

“Life is acting,”
― Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight