The Ordeal of the Haunted Room Quotes

“Oh, be quiet,’ cried Mrs Harewood. I was really getting to like her. I could just see her in a green and purple sash campaigning for women’s suffrage in the decades to come. But back to the plot.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Ordeal of the Haunted Room

“And yes, I know I’ll never go to heaven but have you seen the sort of people who qualify for heaven? Seriously? You want to spend eternity with people like that?”
― Jodi Taylor, The Ordeal of the Haunted Room

“This had clearly once been a very pleasant room but now, sadly, was musty, fusty and dusty, which I thought sounded like three cartoon characters, and it occurred to me that possibly I had had too much wine at dinner after all.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Ordeal of the Haunted Room

“I toyed with the idea of telling him Jesus had probably been born in March and the Christian church had piggybacked their festival on the existing Yule traditions. And probably best not to get him started on Eostre, either.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Ordeal of the Haunted Room

“Peterson doesn’t bear pain well. You should have heard the carry-on when he was unwell in the 14th century. You’d think no one had ever had bubonic plague before.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Ordeal of the Haunted Room

“the setting from one of those children’s programmes where pesky kids and their dog thwart the wicked ghosts,”
― Jodi Taylor, The Ordeal of the Haunted Room

“1985.”
― Jodi Taylor, The Ordeal of the Haunted Room

“Winter Solstice, 1985. The longest night of the year. The night when anything can happen . . .”
― Jodi Taylor, The Ordeal of the Haunted Room