The Inspector Thanet Mysteries Volume Three Quotes

“Look, you know the anger is unconstructive, don’t you? So you have to defuse it. And you do this either by trying to understand your own reaction, just why you are getting so annoyed, or by asking yourself why it is he finds it necessary to behave so provocatively. In this particular instance the answer wasn’t hard to find. Nobody likes to be pitied. Better, by far, to make people angry, irritate them so that they won’t come back again …”
― Dorothy Simpson, The Inspector Thanet Mysteries Volume Three: Element of Doubt / Suspicious Death / Dead by Morning

“Look, you know the anger is unconstructive, don’t you? So you have to defuse it. And you do this either by trying to understand your own reaction, just why you are getting so annoyed, or by asking yourself why it is he finds it necessary to behave so provocatively.”
― Dorothy Simpson, The Inspector Thanet Mysteries Volume Three: Element of Doubt / Suspicious Death / Dead by Morning