Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death Quotes

“You never speak to any of us, you don’t come to social events, in fact, you don’t even acknowledge invitations. You barely know our names. When we ask you to sign petitions for the upkeep of the local area, you don’t acknowledge those either. You don’t contribute to the community. Why, may I ask, this sudden interest in a local resident? Anyway, if you must know, the only one I bumped into other than you was that new man, the dishy one, the writer.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“She looks bored. “Why does everyone we talk to automatically start feeling guilty? Four nights ago, about quarter past ten-ish, you were seen walking past the vic’s house.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“She widens her eyes. “You must be the only one in Trucklewood not to know about the murder. Do you not leave your house? Not Craig Yards, the nephew, but Tobias Yards, the uncle.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Of course not, Arya,” he says, half reproachfully. “You want to live. Despite your childhood, despite your loneliness, you want to live. I would never help anyone who wanted to live. Surely you understand that.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Not so, my policy. When I vas hiding from the Russians, I learned to think of every man, vooman and child as guilty, until you prove that they are innocent, which most of the time, you could not. So.” I look severely at her. “That’s a lovely philosophy.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Men are good at compartmentalizing. They don’t always show their feelings.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“There is nothing whatsoever to talk about. I never do awkward exes. That’s for other people. I get over things pretty quickly. Especially when it’s not that important in the first place.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“rub my forehead. There are more secrets flying about this village than balls in Wimbledon.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Well, you English are so squeamish about details. What’s the biggie? Anyway, I did think he’d met someone recently.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“He liked wounded things. But especially ones that had no time to feel sorry for themselves.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“If I forgave my parents, what would be left of me? Of the person I’d built brick by brick over the years since they’d gone from my life? Of the person I’d vowed to be?”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“I take a breath to brace myself, so I don’t say something impatient. “You can eat what you want, Tallulah. No one has the right to say anything about it.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“People are getting more and more distant from one another. What with social media and technology. It leads us to feel alienated. It leads us to cut away from one another. It results in more depression—”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“The book is advocating group sex and masturbation, which hardly comes as a surprise after what I saw the night before. It’s the tone and the language that makes me curse loud and hard throughout. The book goes on and on.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“want to explain to her, I want to say that when I mention her weight, to me, I’m stating a fact as I see it, I’m not judging her, but she’s never believed me when I’ve said that, so I don’t say it now. “I’m happy you have someone,” I say.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Ow! I remember that about you,” he says, wriggling inside his shirt collar again. “You don’t have to turn every little thing a man says into an opportunity for a social revolution. A man can’t eat his toast in peace when that happens. You don’t need to take a radical position on everything.” “What other positions did you like to take?” Branwell murmurs.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“What’s the point getting an education—both of them qualified, successful corporate journalists—if you don’t have a clue how to love your child?”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“The impatience and anger that was always there when Brendan so much as looked at his daughter. God, the disgust on his face, that was the hardest to bear. I stopped myself from slapping him in the face so many times.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“A Bellatrix Lestrange cake with crazy hair and murderous eyes. (Just to be clear, I’ve tried to make ones that don’t look like Helena Bonham Carter – not because I don’t love the woman, I do, you can’t not, but because, let’s face it, the Harry Potter books are the real deal, the films aren’t, but people look gut-wrenchingly disappointed when I do that, so I stick to the film version of the character”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Auntie Meera is playing on my mind. Her loneliness, her unrelenting politeness. Tobias’s death is hovering there too. What held the two deaths together? Or am I just imagining that?”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“Why didn’t I visit her more often? And why was I haranguing her about how nice she was? It was like something visceral in me couldn’t stand it, though, watching her talk like that. It was unbearable to see her being nice to someone who seemed to have not a stitch of kindness for her in return.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“know how you people make your money, you take advantage of other people’s pain. I know how it works. This went on for nearly an hour.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“It’s better to be needy than to die alone,” she says in a huff before she walks off. Her words make me catch my breath. It’s better to be needy than to die alone. I stare after her.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“get everything I need delivered. Even that is too much human contact for me on most days. I’m all for drones making deliveries. I’d invest money in the enterprise if I ever thought about things like investments and shares and dividends, whatever they are.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“You know, you’re the unfriendliest person this side of the Empire State Building, and now all of a sudden, you’re everyone’s best friend. I don’t get it.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“And it was all coming out of Tallulah’s brain, because the girl gang from Hades was all hair and no braincells.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“The half-brown thing may have been okay, especially in an area like Primrose Hill where there was a rapidly growing population of wealthy Indian people, and increasingly, mixed children too. But the twitching, the anxiety that was visible to all, the shaking, the hiding – I was a marked girl before I uttered my first word.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“They don’t. But you have the opportunity. The best one of the lot, for obvious reasons.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“But in baking, I could escape all that. I could be quiet and still and myself and no one cared what I did or said, I had to answer to no one and no one could turn away from me.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death

“She took me right away. Yes, I had loved her. With a fierceness that still leaves me shaken sometimes when I smell her herbs in a forgotten corner of her house. But they all left me.”
― Amita Murray, Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death