One of my favorite things Harriet says throughout all Sayer's novels is this, when asked by Lord Peter if she thought life was worth living:
"I've always felt absolutely certain it was good--if only one could get it straightened out. I've hated almost everything that ever happened to me, but I knew all the time it was just things that were wrong, not everything. Even when I felt most awful I never thought of killing myself or wanting to die--only of somehow getting out of the mess and starting again."


















