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“Albert Ellingham said knowledge was his religion and libraries were his church, so he built a church.” (Truly Devious Quotes)
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“Few words are more chilling when put together than make friends.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“He grinned the grin of a presenter on some educational show with a cartoon dog, as if to say, “Come with me if you want to learn.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“Her parents had no idea that you could meet people outside of school and it wasn’t freaky and the internet was the way of finding your people.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“His voice was deep and smooth and rich, like what gravy might sound like if gravy could talk.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“How could she be anxious when everything was so cheerful? Very easily, as it happens. Brain chemistry doesn’t care about how pretty things are.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“It’s not bad or good. It just is. That’s something you’ll find out if you decide to go into this line of work. You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they’re supposed to be.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“Of course I worry too much,” Nate said. “But I’m usually right. The people who worry are always right. That’s how that works.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“Schools may be famous for many things: academics, graduates, sports teams. They are not supposed to be famous for murders.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“Sherlock said, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“Sometimes you have to leave the fucking Shire, Frodo.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“Stevie had often wondered how these conversations worked, when people talked about feelings and touching and all of the stuff she thought was meant to be kept carefully bottled inside her own personal apothecary. Now someone wanted in, to take the lids off the vials, to peer at the contents. Stevie was unaware that people were even allowed to talk about emotions this frankly. This was not how things happened at home.” (Truly Devious Quotes)
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“That particular April day was strange and foggy, blurring spaces between the trees and blanketing all of Ellingham in a milky mist. Dottie decided that the weather lent itself to a mystery. Sherlock Holmes would be perfect.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“The moon was thin like a hook, and the owls were calling. The smell of fall leaves blew on the wind and Hayes was dead.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“The thing about looking just a little bit means it’s really easy to look a little bit more.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“There is nothing so serious as a game.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“There is something about early mornings that changes your perceptions subtly. The light is new; no one has put on the defenses of the day. All is reset and not quite real yet.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“What serves on either side, and if you wish to hide, may protect you from your foe, or show him where to go?”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“What you lack in any investigation is time. With every passing hour, evidence slips away. Crime scenes are compromised by people and the elements. Things are moved, altered, smeared, shifted. Organisms rot. Wind blows dust and contaminants. Memories change and fade. As you move away from the event, you move away from the solution.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
“You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they’re supposed to be.”
Maureen Johnson
Truly Devious
