Truly, Devious Quotes
"You can't go around acting like you're smarter than everyone else." "But I am," she would reply.
"Money should never stand in the way of learning."
"I'm a strong believer in truth in advertising."
"What serves on either side, and if you wish to hide, may protect you from your foe, or show him where to go?"
"Schools may be famous for many things: academics, graduates, sports teams. They are not supposed to be famous for murders."
"Do you sometimes get bored here in school?" "Sometimes," Dottie said. "But it's not the school's fault."
"You know I can't let you leave," the person said. "I wish I could."
"A broken head, a nasty fall. A car colliding with a wall. Bombs make a very jolly noise. Such ways to punish naughty boys!"
"Knowledge was his religion and libraries were his church."
"We have about half a million books on site, we have access to millions more digitally."
"The school belongs to Alice Ellingham, if she ever turns up. We’re all technically here on her dime, so we have to thank her."
"You had to be able to feel the ripple that went through the room when the police were approaching the door."
"The perhaps unintended second use was that it was a perfect place to listen to what was happening."
"What it sounds like," Stevie said when asked about researching crime.
"I wish he’d get a mistress and give me something better to listen to."
"I don’t do that. You do that. You come up with something."
"Crime has a human face. If you’re going to study crime, you have to remember the people involved."
"You’ll be all right. They work you hard here, but no one ever died of it."
"What shall we use? We can’t decide. Just like you cannot run or hide. Ha ha."
"Some people want to go to see the Eiffel Tower or Big Ben. Some people dream of their proms or their someday weddings."
"I like detectives, okay? We all have our hobbies."
"I always wanted stories to be real, so I started writing my own."
"You guys go ahead. There’s something I forgot."
"The advantage and disadvantage of this place is its location."
"The guy was a newsie as a kid, lived on the street, didn’t have two pennies to rub together."
"The news can’t tell you what people are really like."
"You think you know so much, Stevie, but wait until you get into the world you’ll see things don’t work that way."
"I’m a pretty, pretty girl," Stevie said. "Who likes to be comfortable."
"Maybe this was enough. Just to be with her friends. Be a normal girl. Stop thinking you found a murder. Close your eyes and dance."
"Who hasn’t taken something?" Nate said. "Everyone does that. How can you go through life without taking something that doesn’t belong to you, even by accident?"
"The thing about Hayes," Stevie said, "he kind of took stuff that wasn’t his."
"This whole place," she said, shaking her head and smiling grimly. "This whole place. Hayes and his stupid ideas. That’s what got him killed, his stupid ideas."
"You’re a good man, Robert," Ellingham said. "I wish you had the happiness in your life that I’ve had in mine. Remember to play. Remember the game. Always remember the game."
"Not sure if you want to sleep like that," Larry said. "There’s a cot in the security office and more sofas upstairs."