The Bookshop Murder Quotes

“think.’ ‘Of course I’m exaggerating. My nerves are on end and now I have this mess to clear before I can let any customers in – and what do I do with the body?’ Flora’s fists tightened, fingernails biting into her palm. ‘I don’t think you’ll”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“The 1950s is a fascinating period, outwardly conformist but beneath the surface there’s rebellion brewing, even in Sussex! I’ve lived in the county for many years now and love it – the small villages, the South Downs, and the sea – and I hope you enjoyed Flora and Jack’s adventures there as much as I loved imagining them.”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“This one is The Discovery of Witches by Matthew Hopkins. He was known as the Witchfinder General – that was his grim profession.”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“I loved my job but even jobs you love can pall.”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“At least, not for women. They proved their worth during the war – as land girls, in munition factories, driving ambulances in the Blitz, flying planes to airfields under enemy fire – but all that seems to have been forgotten. Slowly and surely they’ve been shunted back to the kitchen and the nursery.”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“The knowledge of the world is contained within, that’s the library’s message – one cherub holding a book, and the other a globe.”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“For nearly three years, Flora had cared for the person who was dearest to her. Those years had passed in a daze, with no time ever to think, some days not even time to change her clothes or brush her hair, helping Violet stay on at the All’s Well while running between cottage and bookshop: shopping, cleaning, serving customers, organising medicine, doing the hundred small things that had to be done for an invalid. It had been a sad time, but Flora had never regretted it. She had been with Violet throughout the unequal battle and, when it was over, had felt so exhausted, so wrung out by sorrow and fatigue,”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“She had been with Violet throughout the unequal battle and, when it was over, had felt so exhausted, so wrung out by sorrow and fatigue,”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“Those years had passed in a daze, with no time ever to think, some days not even time to change her clothes or brush her hair, helping Violet stay on at the All’s Well while running between cottage and bookshop: shopping, cleaning, serving customers, organising medicine, doing the hundred small things that had to be done for an invalid. It had been a sad time, but Flora had never regretted it.”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“For nearly three years, Flora had cared for the person who was dearest to her. Those years had passed in a daze, with no time ever to think, some days not even time to change her clothes or brush her hair, helping Violet stay on at the All’s Well while running between cottage and bookshop: shopping, cleaning, serving customers, organising medicine, doing the hundred small things that had to be done for an invalid.”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“she had been left completely alone in the world, and that was a fear the mind had always to suppress.”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“ezackly?”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“Until Violet had swooped to the rescue, she had been left completely alone in the world, and that was a fear the mind had always to suppress.”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“worked”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“way of explanation.”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“How come?”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“Yet the excitement in edging closer to the truth was undeniable, and for the first time in many years, he had a strong sense of living in the world rather than through the characters he created”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“From my research, I'd say that if a murderer is successful with the first killing, most often he or she will use the same method for any others they plan”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“He wanted to put his arms around her and hug her tight, but common sense told him that would be stupid and common sense triumphed”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“People didn't speak of the war, particularly men who had fought their way across Europe. They barely mentioned what had happened to them in those long years of struggle. No one did, really. It was as though a huge schism had broken the country apart - a second appalling conflagration within thirty years - and everyone was now silently trying to knit the edges together”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“The bookshop had been a haven since she was so high, but now it felt violated and she worried that she might never feel comfortable there again”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder

“But Lord Templeton was gone and so was dear Aunt Violet. And so, Flora thought sadly, was her chance of escape. Her chance to leave the narrow life of Abbeymead and walk out into the world beyond”
― Merryn Allingham, The Bookshop Murder