I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

- Patricia Moyes

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

- Patricia Moyes

suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

- Patricia Moyes

Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tatter…

- Patricia Moyes

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

- Patricia Moyes

Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is ne…

- Patricia Moyes

it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly ar…

- Patricia Moyes

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

- Patricia Moyes

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the…

- Patricia Moyes