Minette Quotes

#1. Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Stieg Larsson

#2. Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access to a site where the entry for Klingon is longer than the entry for Latin.

Tara Brabazon

#4. I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.

Narendra Modi

#5. There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.

Minette Walters

#6. Pharmakon means drug, but as Jacques Derrida and others have pointed out, the word in Greek famously refuses to designate whether poison or cure. It holds both in the bowl.

Maggie Nelson

#7. We all know it's safer to beat up on people who won't retaliate,' he told her, 'but it's a quick way to lose friends. You need to find ways of dealing with confrontation when it happens.

Minette Walters

#8. Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.' Eric Hoffer

Minette Walters

#9. Crazy comes in all forms, even ones who look completely harmless.

Rachel Van Dyken

#10. My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

C.S. Lewis

#11. Sometimes, we need little lies to save our pride. And sometimes we need big lies to save our souls.

Bettie Sharpe

#12. Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.

Minette Walters

#13. Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at home, their leaders assumed, would also do so for the rest of the world.

John Lewis Gaddis

#14. It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed ...

Minette Walters

#15. And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Jerry Cantrell

#16. It's [the word "sorry"] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.

Minette Walters

#17. I wasn't thinking of marriage, just commitment.
I wasn't thinking of forever, just reveling in now.
We don't know yet how long we're meant to be-
there are so many obstacles down the road.
But there is also possibility; the ring marks the realm of possibility.

David Levithan