Literary Detectives Quotes

#1. Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed
you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?

Jasper Fforde

#2. I wonder what disgusts you more, the fact that I'm a demon, or the fact that when I touch you, it doesn't matter.

Larissa Ione

#3. I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.

Pierre Schaeffer

#4. Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

Diane Watson

#5. Literary critics make natural detectives.

A.S. Byatt

#6. A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

James A. Baldwin

#7. Look, the point is, tiny fire-breathing dinosaur, stacked up against a doofus not-so-ninja turtle and an overgrown iguana with a flower on his back - practical shit aside, he's clearly the ace choice.

Daniel Younger

#8. I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#9. This is a precious gateway into the alleviation of suffering, which I believe to be our principal task on this earth.

Dalai Lama XIV

#10. Gone out. Backson. Busy backson.

A.A. Milne