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Top 25 Martha Grimes Quotes (2025 Update)

Martha Grimes Quote: “We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.”

1. “We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “You can’t be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get ‘blocked’ make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.”

2. “You can’t be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get ‘blocked’ make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.”

3. “Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Before you hate something you should try to understand it.”

4. “Before you hate something you should try to understand it.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.”

5. “An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Old willows trailed veils of wet leaves across his path. Moss crawled up the headstones. The place was otherwise deserted.”

6. “Old willows trailed veils of wet leaves across his path. Moss crawled up the headstones. The place was otherwise deserted.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Arnold was a dog’s dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big.”

7. “Arnold was a dog’s dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Perhaps he was fit for the life of a hermit. Give up all of his worldly possessions and go live in a hut on a shelf of rock and watch the sunrise every morning. Up before the sun! What a dreadful idea; he shuddered.”

8. “Perhaps he was fit for the life of a hermit. Give up all of his worldly possessions and go live in a hut on a shelf of rock and watch the sunrise every morning. Up before the sun! What a dreadful idea; he shuddered.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Writing is an antisocial act.”

9. “Writing is an antisocial act.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I’ve some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.”

10. “And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I’ve some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Children can ask what adults don’t dare to because we don’t want to admit we’re scared and we don’t really want to hear the answers.”

11. “Children can ask what adults don’t dare to because we don’t want to admit we’re scared and we don’t really want to hear the answers.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradual wearing away of the sharp edges, so that you don’t feel ambushed at every turn, as if you saw the dead suddenly rounding the corner.”

12. “You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradual wearing away of the sharp edges, so that you don’t feel ambushed at every turn, as if you saw the dead suddenly rounding the corner.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.”

13. “Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Macalvie, that was an incredibly lachrymose question.”

14. “Macalvie, that was an incredibly lachrymose question.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.”

15. “The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.”

— Martha Grimes

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Martha Grimes Quote: “I read somewhere that we never completely forget a thing, that there are the imprints of everything we’ve ever seen or done, all of these tiny details at the bottoms of our minds, like pebbles and weeds that never surface from a river bottom.”

16. “I read somewhere that we never completely forget a thing, that there are the imprints of everything we’ve ever seen or done, all of these tiny details at the bottoms of our minds, like pebbles and weeds that never surface from a river bottom.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.”

17. “Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “I cleared my throat – it isn’t frogs you get in your throat; it’s memories.”

18. “I cleared my throat – it isn’t frogs you get in your throat; it’s memories.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Talking’s just a nervous habit.”

19. “Talking’s just a nervous habit.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Melrose, smiling brightly at the butcher.”

20. “Melrose, smiling brightly at the butcher.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Tom says to Richard: You asked what I missed about the job. And that’s it. But his tone had changed. The vanished fame, the lost acclaim, the old success.”

21. “Tom says to Richard: You asked what I missed about the job. And that’s it. But his tone had changed. The vanished fame, the lost acclaim, the old success.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves – I swear, I would have heard it, that’s how silent it all was.”

22. “If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves – I swear, I would have heard it, that’s how silent it all was.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “They’re an idea of home, I think. Words are. It really is like opening a door, isn’t it, to open a book. If that’s not too sentimental to say. Books, words, stories are a kind of solace.”

23. “They’re an idea of home, I think. Words are. It really is like opening a door, isn’t it, to open a book. If that’s not too sentimental to say. Books, words, stories are a kind of solace.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “He suspected, given her editorial experience, that she was in her fifties, but she had been coiffed, massaged, starved, and sunlamped down to forty.”

24. “He suspected, given her editorial experience, that she was in her fifties, but she had been coiffed, massaged, starved, and sunlamped down to forty.”

— Martha Grimes

Martha Grimes Quote: “Before Ernest could start walking back the cat, Melrose put in, “But isn’t it rather we who have come here, Mrs. Attaboy?” At her uncomprehending look, he plowed on. “It is their country.” “What? Africa?” “If Africa were a country, the answer would be yes.”

25. “Before Ernest could start walking back the cat, Melrose put in, “But isn’t it rather we who have come here, Mrs. Attaboy?” At her uncomprehending look, he plowed on. “It is their country.” “What? Africa?” “If Africa were a country, the answer would be yes.”

— Martha Grimes

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