The Marlow Murder Club Quotes

“she couldn’t help noticing everything about her existence seemed to be defined by someone who wasn’t her.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“If she had one piece of advice she’d give her younger self, it would be: don’t get old.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“The whole point of living on your own was that you didn’t have to share your home with anyone.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“But you make your bed in life, don’t you? Sometimes you just have to lie in it. I endured.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Judith knew nothing about cars and cared even less, so all she could tell was it was gray in color, and it was gleaming, not a spot of dirt on it anywhere.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Judith’s mind was scrambled. The “thinking scotch” she’d been drinking had very much turned into “unthinking scotch” sometime around ten-ish,”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Then maybe,” Judith said, deciding to go in for the kill, “you could tell us all about Liz Curtis over a nice cup of tea?” Becks’s smile froze. As a trueborn Englishwoman, she knew there were no circumstances under which she could ever refuse the request of a cup of tea.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Better to welcome someone infrequently than pressure them into not coming at all.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“We’ve got one thing going for us, haven’t we?” “What’s that?” “We’re invisible.” “How do you mean?” “It’s like I said. We’re ‘older’ women, aren’t we? No one notices women over the age of about forty.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Becks’s eyes widened in amazement. “That’s not possible, she does yoga!” Judith wasn’t sure she’d heard correctly. “Are you saying people who do yoga can’t commit murder?” she asked. “Yes!”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“She couldn’t remember the last time she’d voluntarily invited someone into her house. What surprised her was how natural it felt. How easy it had been. Life is full of surprises, she thought to herself.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“everything about her existence seemed to be defined by someone who wasn’t her. She was the kids’ mum, the vicar’s wife, and the house’s wife for that matter.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“The Church of England was the perfect metaphor for the country as a whole, she felt: pleasing to the eye, staunchly old-fashioned, and waning very much in popularity.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“And you know what the kicker was?”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“For the first time, Judith thought she saw panic dart in Danny’s eyes.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Hello, Danny,” she said.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Judith believed even though she was an old-age pensioner, she still had beauty. But it was a feeling she now carried inside her, rather than being any kind of outward appearance. As she’d got older, her beauty had retreated from her skin and become part of what she thought of as her soul.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Then let me say one word to you. Crumble.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“When she married, she couldn’t wait to put on her wedding ring and take her husband’s name. But all these years later, without even her own name to cling to, she felt rudderless, cast adrift.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“she had one piece of advice she’d give her younger self, it would be: don’t get old.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“and had an air of teacherly efficiency about her that Judith already found irritating.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“can’t say I knew Iqbal well. We rarely saw him here. Which is fine by me. Better to welcome someone infrequently than pressure them into not coming at all.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Джудит вважала, що вона, старенька пенсіонерка, досі гарна. Але нині це було радше відчуття, яке вона носила в серці, ніж зовнішній прояв краси. Уявляла це Джуд ит так: коли вона постаріла, краса зійшла зі шкіри і оселилась в душі.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“⁃ Гадаєте, в нього неприємності?
⁃ Поліція не проходить запитати, котра година.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“-Ви кажете, що не були щасливі з чоловіком?
-Не була.
-То чого ж досі носите обручку?
Питання заскочило Джудит зненацька. Вона всміхнулася, але Сузі бачила, що усмішка силувана.
-Ношу як нагадування.
-Про що?
-Про помилки.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Якби вона мала змогу дати одну пораду собі молодій, вона б сказала: не старій.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Мати альтер-еґо — це пʼянке відчуття, й Бекс розуміла, що воно нездорове, особливо зважаючи на те, що, як вона підозрювала, це альтер-еґо їй подобалось більше, ніж її реальне «я».”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club

“Не існує узгоджених правил етикету, як продовжувати перше знайомство двох жінок із середнього класу, якщо одна з них допіру ховалася в шафі.”
― Robert Thorogood, The Marlow Murder Club