Under Lock & Skeleton Key Quotes

“Fiction gets at the truth of life precisely because it can get at the most meaningful elements of true human experience”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“Clayton Rawson’s four Merlini novels,”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“Fiction gets at the truth of life precisely because it can get at the most meaningful elements of true human experience.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“The Three Coffins and The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“impossible crime genre, including The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada and The Fourth Door by Paul Halter.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley. The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“Death from A Top Hat by Clayton Rawson.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“John Dickson Carr’s novel The Burning Court.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“And Then There Were None”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“You people are crazy! You can hardly call it drugging. It was an over-the-counter sleeping pill. Nothing illegal. Nothing dangerous.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“Because he put my niece and Justin in danger that night,” Ivy said. “It’s one thing to kill a grown woman, but quite something else to hurt a child.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“She never meant the stunt to kill you. Or anyone else. Trapping you underwater while the fire started … You have to believe me. That was never supposed to happen. She only wanted you to be delayed long enough so you couldn’t put out the fire. Not to drown.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“She did, but that wasn’t it at all. “Someone wants me to think I’m losing my mind. A person who doesn’t want me to learn the truth about what happened to Cassidy.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“No more secrets. We’ve all lost too many people we care about. Something is going on, and we can only figure it out if we all tell each other what we know about the curse. I need to know what you’re not telling me about my mother.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“The fame. The show. You’re from a famous family. Even your house has a name instead of a regular street number! Who does that? It’s not fair for the rest of us to have to start with nothing.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“Coincidence? Murder across generations? A curse? I’ve never been superstitious. You know that. The premature deaths of your ancestors always sounded to me like accidents.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“Tempest hadn’t talked about this with anyone in ages. But there was something about Gideon’s nonjudgmental face that made him easy to talk to.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“She was a mash-up American and a female magician in a profession still dominated by men. Not Scottish or Indian or the mash-up of her dad’s unknown ancestry, even though she was all of those things. Not a magician’s assistant but the headliner. She was simply Tempest, who knew she was a kick-ass performer and a force to be reckoned with, even though she was lost.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“Eat a piece of this baklava.” Ivy held the plate under Tempest’s nose. “The sugar rush will do you good. Because honestly, you do look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“It’s amazing what a good meal will do for a single man who’s skin and bones because he often forgets to eat while in front of his computer.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

“Her maternal grandfather is South Indian, her grandmother is Scottish, her dad is an ethnically ambiguous Californian, and she has roots in all those places like I do.”
― Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key