The Red House Mystery Quotes

#1. Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

Corrie Ten Boom

#2. That is because most people believe not so much in truth as in things they wish were the truth.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Are you prepared to have quite
obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me
chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own
two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing?

A.A. Milne

#4. Remember, when you don't know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It's like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

Kelly Link

#5. How much does a beam of light weigh?

Ijosephi Lowly Worm

#6. He returned my smile with a half grin. So what do you blog about? Knitting? Puzzles? Being lonely?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. Have some whiskey,there's nothing like it for clearing the head. You must expect to be thick-witted if you insist upon drinking beer.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Will Ferrell

#9. It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.

Iris Murdoch

#10. If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is indeed his message about how to stay happy, sane, and honest in whatever situation one finds oneself in.

Philip Gambone

#11. The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

Charlotte Lennox

#12. As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.

Barbara Rosenblat

#13. She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either in the garret or cellar." In either mood, she needed attention, something the self-contained Lincoln was not always able to provide.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#14. The experience you've had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

A.S.A Harrison

#15. I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

Elizabeth Pisani