The Agathas Quotes

“Sometimes I forget that people can be kind. That you don’t have to ask them. They just are.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“They say money makes you happy. It doesn’t. It just makes you more comfortable in your grief.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“She basically just told kindness to fuck off.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“We might as well make some trouble together.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“The insides of things are so much different than the outsides. Most people don't care to find that out.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“An English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. Also known as the bestselling author of all time. Also, one bad bitch.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“Didn't your parents ever teach you to be patient?"
Agatha looks at me blankly. "No. Is that a thing?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“Well,” I say, “I once saw a show about a guy who bludgeoned his mother to death in the kitchen and then cooked a full meal of pot roast and mashed potatoes, so anything is possible.”
“Iris,” Alice says wearily. “You seem like such a nice person and her your brain is full of horrible things.”
― Liz Lawson, The Agathas

“I did not have Park drugging Brooke on my bingo card.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“We are probably this far from donning trench coats, smoking Lucky Strikes, and slinking furtively around town, taking notes in a little black book.
Which doesn't actually sound all that bad, truth be told.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“you shouldn’t force people to be vulnerable. Sometimes, you need them to be angry, and impetuous, and mean, and hardheaded.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“It’s really not fantastic. It’s more exactly what my parents do: buy me something—something I cannot stand—because it’s expensive.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“Oh my god, everyone seems to have condoms handy; it's like Condomalandia in Castle Cove!”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“Happy lurking," she trills.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“Oh for god's sake. Are you on a burner? You girls are going to get yourselves killed. - Ricky”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“Three hours back at school and I'm already in trouble? Good lord, I've barely had time to pee.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“The diner has been around forever—since like the 1980s”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“You seem like such a nice person and yet your brain is full of horrible things.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“I think people more often kill those they love, than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.” —AGATHA CHRISTIE, CROOKED HOUSE”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“When you’re little, people tell you how great your life will be one day. Tell you that you can be anything or anyone you want as long as you work hard and are kind and never give up. But I do all of these things, and I’m still a girl alone in a crappy seaside apartment with wonky wiring.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“A small ache starts in my center, but I think to myself: What would Agatha Christie do right now?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“Love can be a very frightening thing.” “That is why most great love stories are tragedies.” —AGATHA CHRISTIE, DEATH ON THE NILE”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“It’s like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers, they lose them with a vengeance.” —AGATHA CHRISTIE, THE ABC MURDERS”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“From now on, it is our task to suspect each and every one amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.” —AGATHA CHRISTIE, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“When you’re little, people tell you how great your life will be one day. Tell you that you can be anything or anyone you want as long as you work hard and are kind and never give up. But I do all of those things, and I’m still a girl alone in a crappy seaside apartment with wonky wiring.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“THERE ARE MANY PERKS to being invisible. I don’t mean the actual kind of invisible, like the whole vaporous thing in the movies. I mean being the type of person that people simply don’t really see, because the type of person you are (the type of person they think you are) is not one that interests them. Because people don’t see you, you have free rein to listen in on conversations, observe behavior, and learn patterns. All of these things are essential to surviving life, particularly high school.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas

“Do you always refer to girls going missing as ‘poof’?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas