Osman 1 Quotes

In life you have to learn to count the good days. You have to tuck them in your pocket and carry them around with you. So I’m putting today in my pocket and I’m off to bed.

You always know when it’s your first time, don’t you? But you rarely know when it’s your final time.

It was a well-known fact that there were no calories in homemade cakes.

It’s great to be the fastest runner, but not when you’re running in the wrong direction.

...There are silly, proper tears now. I'll let them fall. If you don't cry sometimes, you'll end up crying all the time.

Some people love their children more than they love their partner,’ says Ibrahim, ‘and some people love their partner more than their children. And no one can ever admit to either thing.

We all have a sob story, but we don't all go around killing people.

Donna has always been headstrong, always acted quickly and decisively. Which is a fine quality when you are right, but a liability when you are wrong. It’s great to be the fastest runner, but not when you’re running in the wrong direction.

Always look where the action isn't, because that's where the action is.

because you know that getting out of a garden chair at our age is a military operation. Once you are in one, you can be in it for the day.

The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air

I'm afraid I don't know WTF. I only discovered LOL from Joyce last week

I know the difference between alone and lonely,

Thank you so much for reading The Thursday Mystery Club. Unless you haven’t read it yet and have just turned straight to the acknowledgments, which I accept is a possibility. You must live your life as you choose.

If you don’t cry sometimes, you’ll end up crying all the time.

At least I have discovered that online dating is not for me. You can have too much choice in this world. And when everyone has too much choice, it is also much harder to get chosen. And we all want to be chosen.

You got to be careful with money. Don't let it be in charge.

I would never have therapy, because who wants to unravel all that knitting? Not wroth the risk, thank you. My daughter, Joanna, has a therapist, although you'd be hard-pressed to know why if you saw the size of her house.

It was a community, and in Ibrahim's opinion that was how human beings were designed to live. At Coopers Chase, anytime you wanted to be alone, you would simply close your front door, and anytime you wanted to be with people, you would open it up again. If there was a better recipe for happiness than that, then Ibrahim was yet to hear it.

You know when you look into someone's eyes for the first time and the whole world breaks apart And you just think, "Of course, of course, this is what I've been waiting for all this time"?

The God of Imagination lived in fairytales. And the best fairytales made you fall in love. It was while flicking through "Sleeping Beauty" that I met my first love, Ivar. He was a six-year-old bello ragazzo with blond hair and eyebrows. He had bomb-blue eyes and his two front teeth were missing. The road to Happily Ever After, however, was paved with political barbed wire. Three things stood in my way. 1. The object of my affection didn't know he was the object of my affection. 2. The object of my affection preferred Action Man to Princess Aurora. 3. The object of my affection was a boy and I wasn't allowed to love a boy.

You always know when it’s your first time, don’t you? But you rarely know when it’s your final time.

Of all the things to lose, to lose one's mind? Let them take a leg or a lung; let them take anything before they take that. Before you become "poor Rosemary" or "poor Frank," catching the last glimpses of the sun and seeing them for what they were. Before there were no more trips, no more games, no more Murder Clubs. Before there was no more you.

I'm afraid I don't know WTF. I only discovered LOL from Joyce last week. I'm going to assume that it doesn't refer to the Warsaw Transit Facility, as that was shut down in 1981 when the Russians came sniffing.

If you have any sort of personality, someone will eventually want to kill you.

One by one, the lights of the village switch off. The only remaining illumination comes from behind the thick hospital blinds of Willows. The business of dying keeps different hours than the business of living.

Do you know how to pick loc–’ Rosie’s question is interrupted by Amy taking a large rock and smashing one of Scroggie’s back windows. ‘Ah, I see you do.

Amy smiles. She loves Adam to the moon and back too, and decides she should tell him. Same. She is a romantic fool sometimes.

Have you ever shot anyone before?’ Rosie asks Steve, while snapping through Amy’s cable ties. ‘No,’ says Steve. ‘But the Coldplay T-shirt made it easier.

Steve is grateful that at least he feels loved. Because if you don’t feel loved, it’s difficult to feel anything at all.

I think that if I have a special skill, it is that I am often overlooked. Is that the word? Underestimated, perhaps?

I keep Gerry in a tight little ball just for me. I think if I let him loose here, it would overwhelm me, and I worry he might just blow away.

Big is the same as small. There's just more of it.

He had read a headline about Diet Coke once, which was so worrying he had chosen not to read the article.

There are friendships forged in fire, which end up disappearing like smoke, and other casual, nodding friendships, which will stay with you for the rest of your life.

I don't think you're supposed to use your mobile telephone in here, Elizabeth," says John. She gives a kindly shrug. "Well, imagine if we only ever did what we were supposed to, John." "You have a point there, Elizabeth," agrees John, and goes back to his book.

I am not a vegan and have no intention of ever becoming one, but I still feel like it's something that should be encouraged. I read that if mankind doesn't stop eating meat, there will be mass starvation by 2050. With respect, I am nearly eighty, and so this won't be my problem, but I do hope they sort it out.

I see,” says Elizabeth, lips pursing. “And what happens if I still choose to say WPC? Will there be a warrant for my arrest?” “No, but I’ll think a bit less of you,” says Donna. “Because it’s a really simple thing to do, and it’s more respectful to me.” “Damn, checkmate, okay,” says Elizabeth, unpursing her lips. “Thank you,” says Donna.

Joyce turns her face up to the sun and closes her eyes. 'Well, isn't this lovely, Ron? I never knew I liked beer. Imagine if I'd died at seventy? I never would have known.

No regrets. We live our lives forwards, not backwards. So always make the best of what's in front of you.

I would never have therapy, because who wants to unravel all that knitting?

Whatever they say about time healing, some things in life just break and can never be fixed.

Ron, I didn't really know how to ask for just an instant coffee, so I got us Caramel Frappuccinos.

The only remaining illumination comes from behind the thick hospital blinds of Willows. The business of dying keeping different hours from the business of living.

He always found it easy to wake up in the morning; he just found it hard to sleep at night

I’m just organized,’ says Joyce. ‘It’s out of fashion. If I say I’m going to Zumba, I go to Zumba.

DCI Chris Hudson is addressing the team. He always seems nice enough. He once opened some double doors for her without looking like he wanted a medal for it.

Serves me right for mixing marijuana and tequila.

at the very least, you made it through to the end. Unless you are one of those people who reads the acknowledgments first, in which case I honestly believe you are a dangerous sociopath.

Like someone reached in and took out my heart and my lungs and told me to keep living. Keep waking up, keep eating, keep putting one foot in front of the other. For what? I don’t think I ever really found an answer to that.

Everyone is taking the best shot they’ve got, and some shots are just luckier than yours. Anytime you feel your unhappiness turning into bitterness, you have to check yourself. You can live with unhappiness, but bitterness will kill

Chess is easy,' says Bogdan, continuing the walk between the lines of graves and now flicking on a torch. 'Just always make the best move.' 'Well, I suppose,' says Elizabeth. 'I've never quite thought about it like that. But what if you don't know what the best move is?' 'Then you lose.

Was he a content man, doing the things he liked alone? Or was he a lonely man making the best out of what he had? Alone, or lonely? This question cropped up so often these days, Chris could no longer be confident of his answer. Though if he was a betting man, his money would be on lonely.

I know many people enjoy your books, and surely they can’t all be wrong?

It’s South Carolina,” says Carlos. “Sweating’s what we do.

You may not have recognized me,’ says Max. This, he has learnt, is politer than ‘Don’t you know who I am?

When are your hunches ever wrong?’ says Ron. ‘Actually, quite often,’ says Joyce. ‘She just says them with confidence. She’s like a consultant.

I never take offense,” says Tony. “Saved me a lot of time over the years.

They had got away with it, as some people do, I'm afraid. The older you get, the more you have to come to terms with that.

I remember dabbing at my mouth before I answered, like you see on television sometimes. It makes you look clever, try it.

I still haven't quite worked out how my Instagram works, which is very frustrating. As @GreatJoy69 now has over 200 private messages.

Anytime you would see a photograph of him in the paper, the caption would always be something like, "Talks collapsed late last night.

One of the first things you learn at Coopers Chase is that some people can still actually hear.

Elizabeth looks to Donna like the sort of teacher who terrifies you all year but then gives you a grade A and cries when you leave.

So we were all witnesses to a murder" says Elizabeth "Which, needless to say, is wonderful

Who killed Tony Curran though? Ventham. Typical Blairite.

Bit by bit, Donna was intent on dragging Chris from his century into hers.

If you hit women, you hit women

Normal is an illusory concept, Bogdan," adds Ibrahim.

I like it when men cry. Not too much, but this was just right.

Sitting in their gardens, doing a sudoku, knowing they had got away with murder.

The back is ramrod straight. It would be the most uncomfortable chair that Chris had ever sat in, had he not just made the flight to Cyprus on Ryanair.

don’t do nuance either,” says Max. “Nuance is too woke.

Chris takes a swig of Diet Coke. He sometimes worries he is addicted to it. He had read a headline about Diet Coke once, which was so worrying he had chosen not to read the article.

More than anything, she is supposed to be a reassuring presence in a terrifying world. Donna understands that, and it also gets her out of both the station and paperwork, so she volunteers.

After writing an email, a text, anything really, you can simply run the whole thing through ChatGPT and it instantly deletes your personality. It flattens you out, irons your creases, washes you away, quirk by quirk, until you disappear.

Steve stops by the window of the estate agent and peers through the glass. If he was moving to the village today, he wouldn't be able to afford it. The only way anyone can afford to buy a house these days is to have bought it fifteen years ago.

Everyone is vulnerable. For some people, for Steve, it comes out as fear, avoiding situations where the vulnerability is exposed. For others, for an awful lot of people these days, vulnerability comes out as anger, pushing away anything that feels like it might pierce their shell. Steve watches

How many more autumns for Elizabeth? How many more years of slipping on a pair of comfortable boots and walking through the leaves? One day, spring will come without her. The daffodils will always come up by the lake, but you won’t always be there to see them. So it goes; enjoy them while you can.

We normally meet in the Jigsaw Room, you see,’ says Joyce. ‘But it’s not Thursday and the Jigsaw Room is being used by Chat and Crochet.’ ‘Chat and Crochet is a fairly new group, Detective Chief Inspector,’ says Ibrahim. ‘Formed by members who had become disillusioned with Knit and Natter. Too much nattering and not enough knitting, apparently.

for an awful lot of people these days, vulnerability comes out as anger, pushing away anything that feels like it might pierce their shell. Steve watches people on TV sometimes, shouting the odds about this, that, or the other, railing against the truth of reality, and he always sees the pain first. They have lost someone, or they never had someone, and so now they have lost themselves.

So, he would go home, and have a night in by himself, with a curry. He knew that was where this was heading. There was a darts tournament on Sky. Chris wondered if this was a tragic plan, or whether it was simply the sort of plan that people would think was tragic. Was he a content man, doing the things he liked alone? Or was he a lonely man making the best out of what he had? Alone, or lonely?

For Ibrahim one of the beauties of Coopers Chase was that it was so alive. So full of ridiculous committees and ridiculous politics, so full of arguments, of fun, and of gossip. All the new arrivals, each one subtly shifting the dynamic. All the farewells too, reminding you that this was a place that could never stay the same. It was a community, and in Ibrahim's opinion that was how human beings were designed to live. At Coopers Chase, anytime you wanted to be alone, you would simply close your front door, and anytime you wanted to be with people, you would open it up again. If there was a better recipe for happiness than that, then Ibrahim was yet to hear it.

I will let you know how everything goes.

Chris always found it easy to get up in the morning. He just found it hard to go to sleep at night.

You will go completely mad waiting for life to be fair

Carlito has done this job for two years now and not a single person has ever been late. Except for Malcolm Weekes, who, as it turned out, had died in the lightbulb aisle in Robert Dyas.

That's when Ibrahim joined us and suggested that DCI might try plates, and Donna said that was something she would pay to see. Ian Venham didn't want to join in the fun, and told Donna and DCI Hudson that he paid their wages. Donna said in that case could she ask him about a pay rise, and that's when Ventham started shouting the odds about this, that, and the other. People without a sense of humor will never forgive you for being funny. But that's an aside.

Ian is sure this display will blow over, but he hopes the police show up soon. With the amount of tax dollars he hypothetically pays, it's really not too much to ask.

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As a side-note, I will never tire of saying bludgeoned. I bet you used to say that a lot in the police, you lucky thing.

People without a sense of humour will never forgive you for being funny.

That’s who we are as human beings. For the most part, we are kind.

Do we have a choice, Elizabeth?’ asks Chris. ‘Choice is overrated; you’ll learn that as the years fly by,

Ian had felt compelled to agree to the terms because Tony had never been anything but loyal to him, and also because Tony had made it clear he would break both of Ian’s arms if he refused. Ian had seen Tony break people’s arms before, and so they were now partners.

Sunglasses on. And so to business. Ian is not planning on dying today.

And you’ve chosen, deliberately chosen, a woman architect, so I won’t be allowed to shout.’ ‘You are shouting though, Ron,’ says Elizabeth, who is two seats away, reading a newspaper. ‘Don’t you tell me when I’m shouting, Elizabeth,’ shouts Ron.

Donna, like any modern woman, I am any number of things, as and when the need arises. We have to be chameleons, don’t we?