Murder in an Irish Castle Quotes

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“Well, what a waste of travelling time it would be if everything were like home.”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“Say nothing. Instead, get yourselves back to Hennelly Towers before you succumb to hypothermia or shock. Since indomitable is not the same as invincible”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“Why doesn't life's awkward social situations come with an instruction manual, Ellie!”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“How I would love to spend a day on your observant brain. Well, at least until your maddening methodicalness and irritating exactitude drove me to escape screaming”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“Them nuns have devious down to an art. For sure, they got themselves a palace in Ballykieran when the man who owned it was at his weakest. On his deathbed!" He tapped his nose. "All I'm saying, m'lady, is that there's praying." He put his hands together reverently, and then pounced forward like a tiger. "And then there's preying!”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“So, you'll help me order my thoughts while we eat? Because you know I'm lost without your exasperating logic and infuriating methodicalness”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“That's a terrifying thought. Me, being an Irish Baronetess. After my rather Bohemian upbringing abroad, I haven't finished wrestling with the intricacies of being a titled Lady of the Manor in rural England yet”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“We are utterly, utterly lost!"

Lady Eleanor Swift's words cut through the monotonous rhythm of the windscreen wipers.

"If you say so my lady."

Eleanor's piercing green eyes swivelled to her butler as he steadfastly stared forward, steering the Rolls Royce along the inky-black ribbon of water-filled potholes that passed for a road.

"I do actually, Clifford. It's almost midnight, we've been driving for an eternity and, as I said, we find ourselves entirely lost.”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle

“tiffin,”
― Verity Bright, Murder in an Irish Castle