6 Quotes by Dorothy Simpson

If someone is determined to kill himself, nothing will stop him.

I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it." -Detective Thanet.

Why it should feel worse to speak ill of the dead than the living I can't imagine.

Perhaps being an actress means that in a situation like this people will constantly be questioning whether the emotions you display are genuine.

A good detective not only has to be intelligent, persevering and prepared to do enless boring routine work, he also needs one other quality: Intuition. I see it rather as the ability to make connections which are there but are not immediately apparent. Subterranean connections.

The ideal way to live would be always to treat each day, each encounter with loved ones, as one’s last. Only thus could one avoid the endless self-reproach, self-recrimination, with which so many flagellate themselves after a sudden loss.