Цитаты из книги Top Marks for Murder

simply appearing old and important does not mean you really are

It always amazes me how much grown-ups think they can get past us, as though they believe we are only given brains when we turn twenty.

what’s the point of life if it isn’t exciting?

after all, there’s no one more annoying than the person you spend the most time with.

Warmongering by any name can never be excused, and nationalistic warmongering is the very worst.

even when you are a powerful, sensible, clever grown-up, you cannot stop terrible things happening. You cannot even stop yourself feeling sad about those things when they happen.

Honestly, it’s money that makes people so unhappy. Wealth ought to be redistributed so that everyone has the same amount.

You can be angry at parents when they are in front of you, disappointing you, but you cannot be angry at parents who do not even bother to be here – so you have to take out your anger on everyone else.

Sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to, to protect things we love.

It is painfully difficult to focus on being a detective when you feel an idiot, and it is no good people who always look well in clothes telling you that the outside of yourself does not matter. When you are dressed wrong, it is all you can think about.