Martha Grimes

“If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead…

— Martha Grimes

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking…

— Martha Grimes

Talking's just a nervous habit.

— Martha Grimes

“any particular idiot in mind?” “I do, indeed. If Tom was actually here on Monday, and he needed an alibi, well, man,…

— Martha Grimes

“As he followed Wood, Jury thought: one disappearance, two auto accident victims, one in a mental institution, one drowned. One murdered. Rackmoor,…

— Martha Grimes

I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.

— Martha Grimes

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

— Martha Grimes

“And how did he ever think he’d get away with murdering me?” Her tone implied she must surely belong to that rare…

— Martha Grimes

“Fear wearing black.' Definition of cool. Maybe it's also the definition of courage. Would she be courageous?”.”

— Martha Grimes

You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and…

— Martha Grimes

“Losing one's mind is surely like losing one's virginity. Lose a little, lose a lot.”

— Martha Grimes

Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to…

— Martha Grimes

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

— Martha Grimes

“And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. "Now, you really…

— Martha Grimes

Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its…

— Martha Grimes

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

— Martha Grimes

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

— Martha Grimes

Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he…

— Martha Grimes

“What does the absolutely final deadline apply to? What book?" If there was one book that did not cry out for a…

— Martha Grimes

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery…

— Martha Grimes

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

— Martha Grimes

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

— Martha Grimes

Writing is an antisocial act.

— Martha Grimes

“Melrose was so concerned that the [book]shop might close for lack of business, that he had suggested he would like to invest…

— Martha Grimes

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to…

— Martha Grimes