Quotes from Sophie Hannah

I've had no practice at talking to famous detectives in my own kitchen.

Allow a person to affect your emotions and your judgment suffered, always.

There is a difference, Peter, between an unforgivable act and a person of unforgivable character.

Bagaimana sesuatu yang baik bisa dihasilkan dari pertumpahan darah dan pembunuhan besar-besaran? Bagaimana kemajuan bisa dicapai oleh orang-orang yang hanya ingin merusak dan menghancurkan, yang tidak bisa menceritakan harapan dan impiannya tanpa memberengut benci dan marah?

Would you mind dreadfully if I put you in a book one day?

El arte habla al alma y al corazón, más que a la mente.

The food at Pleasant's was almost as good as the coffee. Indeed, when he considered the two together, Poirot found it hard to believe what he knew to be the case: that everybody who worked in the kitchen here was English. Incroyable.

Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality—that's something worth raging about.

Life punishes the needy; admit you can't live without something and it's taken away.

make decisions based on hope, not fear.

Everything's something you can't do until you have to do it.

Art speaks to the heart and soul more than to the mind.

Perhaps he too is pretending to be someone he isn't. Perhaps we all are: everyone in here - the people to my left and right and all along the row, staring at their screens, enjoying their private, insignificant deceits, or else trapped by them and wishing they could escape.

It's dark outside, in that thorough way that looks like the night trying to tell you it hasn't finished.

The wounds you can't see are the worst.

That's what the exercise is: you imagine that each choice goes amazingly well, and then you choose which of those ideal outcomes would be the most ideal.

didn't belong to her. She said her car was missing a mirror and the trains were knackered, so she'd

I must say, I did not and never would understand why he required such a sizeable audience. It was not a theatrical production.

does not sound 'quite simple' to me," I said. "It sounds inordinately complicated.

Like having a can of Coke after a long and thirsty game of tennis. Tastes better than any other can of Coke you've ever had. Marriage, by contrast, is like starting with a fizzy can of Coke and waiting around while it gets flatter and flatter.

Nothing is ever known for certain in this world, Michael.

It is among the more pointless of my habits: wondering what I ought to do when there is no doubt about what I am going to do.

A phenomenon I have had cause to notice time and again in both my professional and my social life is that when one meets a large group of people all at once, one somehow knows-as if by otherworldly instinct-which of them one will enjoy speaking to and which are worth avoiding.

I have an unorthodox sense of humor. Charles used to complain about it. I never told him this, but I don't believe in heaven and hell. Oh, I believe in God, but not the God we hear so much about.