Whodunits Quotes & Sayings

I began to appreciate that the job of an amateur sleuth was not quite so straightforward as they make out in the whodunits. — Bruce Beckham

Anyone who deprived her of something she wanted deserved what he got. — Jim Thompson

That's it. Gently now," Reagan said to Nellie. "We'll move onto the hard stuff tomorrow."
"This ... isn't ... the hard stuff?" Nellie spit out through gritted teeth.
Reagan grinned. "You really hate me right now, don't you?"
"Immeasurably."
"Good. Give me ten. — Jude Watson

When God tells you to be brave, he will make it work. It won't be perfect. It won't be easy. But it will be your story and your best story. — Annie F. Downs

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. — Ronald Reagan

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain ... This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit ... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done. — Richard J. Foster

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into. — Mireille Enos