Sharon Bolton Quotes

#1. On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.

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#2. Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.

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#3. Crime writers adore islands. We love the sense of being trapped within a community apart, where normal codes of behavior, if not ignored, can be allowed to slip.

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#4. my experience, people who are very keen on The Lord of the Rings can be a bit odd. On the other hand, I was quite a Tolkien fan myself.

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#5. He'll never know what it would be like, to wake up beside her.

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#6. My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands.

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#7. I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.

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#8. Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core.

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#9. On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.

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#10. 'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.

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#11. She nods and the elephant in the room throws back its head and trumpets so loud I think the roof might come off.

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#12. I was prepared to be lenient when it was my own safety at stake but if he hurts my dog, I will kill him.

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#13. But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.

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#14. I've never once corrected someone who got my name wrong.

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#15. Scared by the noise, Millie looked down at her brothers. Then she held out both arms and Tom's stomach turned cold. She was going to jump to him, like she did from the back of the sofa. She was going to jump, confident that he'd catch her, like he always did.

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#16. If you have to choose between terrible grief and terrible guilt, I think grief is easier, in the end.

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