99 Quotes by Sophie Hannah

Seems to me there’s not much time to read about other people’s lives and live your own while you’re at it. If I have to choose, and I reckon I do, I’ll choose living my own life over reading summat about someone else’s.

Humans, as a rule, were doggedly determined not to believe in the experiences of anyone but themselves.

It is the job of art to replace unhappy true stories with happier inventions.

This is why mysteries are the best kind of stories: because you only get the truth at the very end, when you’re absolutely desperate, and that way of arranging things makes you realize how scarce truth is, in stories and in life, and that it’s really all that matters.

If something is in a person’s head, then it is real,” Poirot said.

I like to savor the smell of a garden I cannot see. Do you smell it? The pine, and the lavender – oh, yes, very strongly the lavender. The nose is as important as the eyes. Ask any horticulturist.” Poirot chuckled. “I think that if you and I were to meet the one who created this garden, I would make the more favorable impression upon him.

I know better than anyone that sometimes a possibility is enough to keep a person going, even if it never becomes a reality.

If we never make any changes that scare us at first, we end up missing out.

Anyone who cares more about pleasing other people than about their own happiness – anyone who believes, deep down, that everyone else matters more than they do – learns fluent dishonesty at a young age.