Kerry Greenwood Quotes

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If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!
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Kerry Greenwood
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I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.
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Kerry Greenwood (Queen of the Flowers (Phryne Fisher, #14))
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Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again.
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Kerry Greenwood (Dead Man's Chest (Phryne Fisher, #18))
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There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.
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Kerry Greenwood (Queen of the Flowers (Phryne Fisher, #14))
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Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder in the Dark (Phryne Fisher, #16))
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A young man in one’s hotel bedroom is capable of being explained, but a corpse is always a hindrance.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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... with all the sweetness of a chocolate-coated razor-blade.
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Kerry Greenwood (Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher, #2))
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If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.
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Kerry Greenwood (Death At Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher, #4))
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He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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Her heart was beating appreciably faster, and she took more rapid breaths, but she was enjoying herself. Adventuresses are born, not made.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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I believe in absolutely nothing except yeast and the inevitability of politicians.
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the first Goddess, Gaia, who was the earth, wide hipped, big bellied, the womb of the human race, the nurturing breast of all humans, the opulent and voracious beginning of all things female.
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Kerry Greenwood (Trick or Treat (Corinna Chapman, #4))
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Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.
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No cook can ignore the opinion of a man who asks for three helpings. One is politeness, two is hunger, but three is a true and cherished compliment.
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Kerry Greenwood (The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher, #5))
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I can’t afford to spend days in self loathing as everyone expects fat women to do. Self loathing eats your life.
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Kerry Greenwood (Earthly Delights (Corinna Chapman, #1))
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She was sensible of the fact that while there were two sets of masculine arms to fall into, and one of them her current pet, Phryne had fallen into Dot’s.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder on the Ballarat Train (Phryne Fisher, #3))
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Truth came home one day, naked and wounded, having been beaten and cursed by the people who did not wish to hear, while his brother Falsehood went dressed in the brightest garments and feasted with every household. β€œWhat shall I do?” cried Truth to the gods. β€œNo man wishes to hear me and all beat me and throw things at me; look, I am covered with dung.” β€œYou are naked” said the goddess Maat, sympathetically. β€œNo naked one can command respect. Therefore take these robes and you will walk without fear and all men will sit at your feet to hear your stories.” And she dressed Truth in Fable’s garments, and he was welcome at every house.
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Kerry Greenwood (Out of the Black Land)
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First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.
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Kerry Greenwood (Death at Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher, #4))
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The world is too harsh a place to contemplate directly, without a cushion of fancy and belief.
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Phryne was feeling most displeased with a species to which, she reminded herself, she belonged.
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Kerry Greenwood (Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8))
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Now we will all die. What a pity. I haven't done half the wicked things I wanted to do, and the ones I have done I haven't done anything like enough.
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Kerry Greenwood
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I always like cases when the victim's been practically begging to be killed. It means I don't have to be sorry for him.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder and Mendelssohn (Phryne Fisher, #20))
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Both had suggestive bulges in their pockets which told of either huge genitalia or trousered pistols.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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This is what 'forever' means, my dear. You don't walk into danger on your own. Not anymore.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder and Mendelssohn (Phryne Fisher, #20))
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She wondered, briefly, if she was beautiful, decided she was and blew a kiss to her reflection
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Kerry Greenwood (Death At Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher, #4))
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The young will no longer be advised by the old," she said to the hall porter. "That is because we advised them to die," said the hall porter.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder in Montparnasse (Phryne Fisher, #12))
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One only has a few fragrant nights of spring. Store your memories for when you are old. You will enjoy them again under such a moon as this.
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Kerry Greenwood (The Castlemaine Murders (Phryne Fisher, #13))
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In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies? Phryne laughed. No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. look at that one---you'd swear he had been hitting the gin.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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Come to the jacaranda tree at seven o'clock and you will hear something to your advantage. Destroy this note.' No signature, no clue to the identity. Just what sort of heroine do you think I am? Phryne asked the air. Only a Gothic novel protagonist would receive that and say, 'Goodness, let me just slip into a low-cut white nightie and put on the highest heeled shoes I can find,' and, pausing only to burn the note, slip out of the hotel by a back exit and go forth to meet her doom in the den of the monster - to be rescued in the nick of time by the strong-jawed hero (he of the Byronic profile and the muscles rippling beneath the torn shirt). 'Oh, my dear,' Phryne spoke aloud as if to the letter-writer. 'You don't know a lot about me, do you?
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Kerry Greenwood (Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher, #10))
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Phryne looked at a large statue of St. Joseph, for whom she had always had an admiration. It can’t have been easy, managing a girl with an inexplicable pregnancy. But he had accepted the word of the Lord and not put her away. Later generations had not been so forgiving.
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Kerry Greenwood (Unnatural Habits (Phryne Fisher, #19))
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My own view is that everyone works too hard and too long and they ought to get out more. There isn’t time in their improverished lives to do anything creative, or even to just sit and stare, one of my favourite occupations. And how the wired-in youngβ€”never without their music, never out of touch because of mobile phones, constantly sharing everything, even picturesβ€”are going to cope if they ever encounter solitude and silence is another thing.
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Kerry Greenwood (Trick or Treat (Corinna Chapman, #4))
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I want to find the murderer too. I don’t like having my journeys interrupted by chloroform.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder on the Ballarat Train (Phryne Fisher, #3))
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You know how I feel about pretty boysβ€”there aren’t enough of them in the world as it isβ€”we can’t have people wantonly removing them.
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It took determination to be really strange. That, or absinthe before breakfast every day.
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Kerry Greenwood (Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8))
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Jane read her Anatomy, occasionally raising her eyes from a diagram to consider any human within sight in a dissecting sort of way which, Dot said, gave her the willies.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder in the Dark (Phryne Fisher, #16))
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Dot had discovered in herself a keen interest in diligent research of nice calm paper records, which never wept or ran away or turned nasty.
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Kerry Greenwood (The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher, #5))
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Lust was a reliable emotion, but greed was altogether simpler to satisfy and you got to keep your clothes on.
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Kerry Greenwood (Dead Man's Chest (Phryne Fisher, #18))
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Never trust a man who bites the heads off chickens is probably a good sound rule of practice.
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Kerry Greenwood (The Castlemaine Murders (Phryne Fisher, #13))
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It was always easier to genuinely praise than to try and find something nice to say about rubbish.
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Kerry Greenwood (Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher, #2))
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother saidβ€”and she had the Sightβ€”β€œTis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living!” And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angelsβ€”or devils.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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Dot wondered how she was to mention Phryne’s habit of strewing her boudoir with beautiful naked young men. She could not think of a method of introducing the subject and decided to leave it to Phryne to cope with.
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Kerry Greenwood (Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher, #2))
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Conversation is a minefield until you learn the conventions, Jane dear.’ β€˜I’ll never learn all the rules,’ muttered Jane. β€˜Yes, you will,’ said Phryne. β€˜Then you can bend them. The best advice I would give you is, β€œIf under attack, cause a diversion”.’ β€˜A diversion?’ β€˜Yes, trip over the dog, spill a glass of wine on your attacker, burst into song, challenge your attacker to a duel. And the angrier you get, the lower your voice should be. Never shout unless you are shouting β€œFire!
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Kerry Greenwood (The Castlemaine Murders (Phryne Fisher, #13))
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This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.
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Kerry Greenwood (Raisins and Almonds (Phryne Fisher, #9))
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And is it any wonder that the poor woman broke out into fairies when she had been deprived of any fiction in her youth?
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She was always over the horizon, chasing stars.
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We learn love from the people who love us.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder and Mendelssohn (Phryne Fisher, #20))
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You've been making a regular habit of flinging yourself in front of bullets," she remarked amiably. "It's really not a good custom. Curb this tendency to self-immolation.
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I gave chase, and he took a shot at me, so I did the only thing I could in the circumstances…. I stabbed him in the shoulder.
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Kerry Greenwood (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Bundle, Books 1-4)
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Miss? Miss Phryne? Are you all right?’ β€˜Come in, Dot. I’m fine. Some son of unmarried parents just tried to kidnap me.’ β€˜What did you do with the body, Miss?
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Kerry Greenwood (Death At Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher, #4))
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Money can’t buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.
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Kerry Greenwood (Dead Man's Chest (Phryne Fisher, #18))
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She looked as plump and self-confident as the city pigeons outside, and as sure of her place.
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Kerry Greenwood (Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher, #2))
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platypuses irresistible proof that God likes a joke as much as anyone else. β€˜A platypus is intrinsically much less likely than a unicorn or a sea serpent.
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Kerry Greenwood (Death by Water (Phryne Fisher, #15))
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His voice was heavy with Slavic fatalism.
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Kerry Greenwood (Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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Even the reeking dark in the lion's cage seemed precious and infinitely preferable to whatever lay beyond. She would go out like the flame of a candle. Where does the candle flame go when the candle is blown out? She laid her painted face against the iron bars and bared her teeth at death.
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Kerry Greenwood (Blood and Circuses (Phryne Fisher, #6))
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One can look at a plumber, a labourer, and say without a great sense of irony, 'He is a man, capable of the same heroism as Admiral Nelson or Saint Francis of Assisi.' But no one looks at a woman and says, 'She is a woman, she is capable of the same heroism as Lady Godiva or Anne Askew.' Our heroines are separated from us. So instead of trying to make Man accept us as daughters of heroism, we must raise all women to the level of heroines.
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Kerry Greenwood
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Things accumulated in purses. Unless they were deliberately unloaded and all contents examined for utility occasionally, one could find oneself transporting around in one's daily life three lipstick cases with just a crumb of lipstick left, an old eyebrow pencil sharpener without a blade, pieces of defunct watch, odd earrings, handkerchiefs (three crumpled, one uncrumpled), two grubby powder puffs, bent hairpins, patterns of ribbon to be matched, a cigarette lighter without fuel (and two with fuel), a spark plug, some papers of Bex and a sprinkling of loose white aspirin, eleven train tickets (the return half of which had not been given up), four tram tickets, cinema and theatre stubs, seven pence three farthings in loose change and the mandatory throat lozenge stuck to the lining. At least, those had been the extra contents of Phyrne's bag the last time Dot had turned it out.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder in Montparnasse (Phryne Fisher, #12))
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I remind my American readers that biscuits in England and Australia are crispy flat things such as you call cookies, and the soft doughy things you call biscuits are what we call scones. And they say we speak the same language…
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder in the Dark (Phryne Fisher, #16))
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Amazement could go no further. If Phryne had ridden in on a unicorn he would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Felmington. Well, no, not a unicorn. Not Phryne. A dragon, perhaps. He was sure that she could tame a dragon.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder and Mendelssohn (Phryne Fisher, #20))
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She smiled brightly on Mrs. West. "Who's your dressmaker, Mrs. West?" she asked, with a view to avoiding the woman all costs. Such extremes of fashion as the purple shift dress which Mrs. West was almost wearing was not for Phryne. She preferred her personality to supply the outrageous edge to her appearance, not her exposed bosom.
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Don’t be silly, Phryne, I’m an—’ β€˜Invert?’ said Phryne. β€˜Of course you are.’ She said this as though he had just claimed to have blue eyes, as something utterly ordinary. β€˜And that means,’ John persisted, β€˜that I am a sinner.’ β€˜Rubbish,’ said Phryne sharply. β€˜No one can help whom they love. I am positive that your God doesn’t care a fig.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder and Mendelssohn (Phryne Fisher's Mystery #20))
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Good morning, Meroe,' I said, dusting uselessly at my tracksuit pants. 'Might I interest you in today's special, pre-floured kitten?
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Kerry Greenwood
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She dropped on his chest with both knees and vengefully banged his head on the floor, once to knock him out and twice because it made her feel better.
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Kerry Greenwood
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Narrative has its prerogatives and I am not going to spoil a good story or the fairies may not give me any new ones.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder in the Dark (Phryne Fisher, #16))
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Phryne read a detective story, frequently going back because she suddenly found herself reading a conversation between two characters she had not met beforeβ€”
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Kerry Greenwood (Queen of the Flowers (Phryne Fisher, #14))
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They are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. Look at that oneβ€”you’d swear he had been hitting the gin.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living!
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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I don't like the idea of being killed by fools. I shall have to ensure that this does not happen.
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nothing like a few days of people telling you that you are mad and deluded when you know that you are telling the truth to turn the brain.
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Kerry Greenwood (Death At Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher, #4))
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The butterfly danced on the flower.
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Kerry Greenwood (Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8))
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Phryne opened her book and sipped her lemonade. Agatha Christie. What a plotter. Phryne wished briefly that the real world was so amenable to being solved. ***
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Kerry Greenwood (Unnatural Habits (Phryne Fisher, #19))
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She had always found platypuses irresistible proof that God likes a joke as much as anyone else.
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Kerry Greenwood (Death by Water (Phryne Fisher, #15))
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The Colonel was far too firmly married and full of military honours to be a threat to Phryne’s virtue, or what remained of it, so she agreed.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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Phryne had defences against almost any argument, but not against two pretty young men at her feet. Very decorative they were and she might have uses for them.
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Kerry Greenwood (Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher, #10))
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If she's a flapper," mused the sergeant, wiping Passionate Rouge lipstick off his blameless mouth, "then I'm all for 'em, and I don't care what Mum says.
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants: it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt Speech to the House of Commons, 1783
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Kerry Greenwood (Unnatural Habits (Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery #19))
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I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets.
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Kerry Greenwood (Earthly Delights (Corinna Chapman, #1))
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Lindsay was treated likewise by Mr. Butler, who washed his face as though he was five years old and still unreliable with chocolate.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder on the Ballarat Train (Phryne Fisher, #3))
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We took the peaches to bed. It is always nice to have someone else to lick the peach juice off your breast.
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Kerry Greenwood (Forbidden Fruit (Corinna Chapman, #5))
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My head throbbed and my mouth tasted like incontinent parrots had roosted there overnight. I
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Kerry Greenwood (Trick or Treat (Corinna Chapman, #4))
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Phryne always existed as a still, self-possessed point in a maelstrom. Usually she had created the maelstrom herself.
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Kerry Greenwood (Queen of the Flowers (Phryne Fisher, #14))
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Bert was short and stout. Cec was tall and lanky. Between them, there was nothing that they could not reach.
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Kerry Greenwood (Death at Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher, #4))
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Ruth did not approve of young men. So noisy.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder in Montparnasse (Phryne Fisher, #12))
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The Albion was a spacious pub, built in the days when a public house with any pretensions to gentility had to have fourteen foot ceilings, brass taps and a polished wooden bar you skate down. ... Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if heaven didn't have a well-appointed pub where a man could sit down over a beer for a yarn with the other angels, then he didn't want to go there.
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Kerry Greenwood (Raisins and Almonds (Phryne Fisher, #9))
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My dear, the furniture is all castoffs. No point in having good furniture if you have children. One would be forever telling them not to bounce on the couch. Too fatiguing for me and too irritating for them.
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Kerry Greenwood (The Castlemaine Murders (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries #13))
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One invited artists to social events, but only for the pleasure of their company. To invite singers or dancers to perform for their supper was inexpressively vulgar, and deserved a prompt and stinging rebuke.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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To Hell with all racialists,' she said aloud. 'And to Hell with eugenics, degenerate heredity, miscegenation and frauds who pile up skulls like a conqueror as well. May they choke on their bones.' A passing gentleman boggled at her and crossed to the other side of La Trobe Street. 'There is no place for them in the Kingdom of Heaven,' she added, rolling the phrase over her tongue and filing it for future reference.
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Kerry Greenwood (Ruddy Gore (Phryne Fisher, #7))
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If you repose your trust in anything, Mr. Collins, you can rely on her. She may whisk you in the night as on a broom and frighten the wits out of you, but what she swears to do, she will do. And she is very fond of her maid.
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Kerry Greenwood (Death at Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher, #4))
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His dad had always told him that the red-faced were blusterers, not to be taken seriously. 'But if you see a bloke who's pale and shaking, son,' Bert's father had instructed, 'then run like blazes, because he might flamin' kill you.
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Kerry Greenwood (Raisins and Almonds (Phryne Fisher, #9))
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Tinker wrote neatly, though his spelling was not good, Ruth's recipes would never fail for confusion between 'add sugar' and 'seethe', but Jane's writing looked like an intoxicated inky spider had staggered across the page on the way to the bar for another drink. Which it really didn't need.
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Miss Phryne Fisher. Investigations. 221B, The Esplanade, St Kilda,’ read Bunji. β€˜You becoming a private Dick, eh? What larks! And what luck about the address.’ β€˜It wasn’t luck, I just added a B to 221. I bought the house for the number. You must drop in and see me, Bunji. Now come upstairs and we’ll find you a gown.
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Kerry Greenwood (Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher, #2))
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All this display, while the working classes were pinched beyond bearing; it was not wise, or tasteful: it smacked of ostentatious wealth. The Europe from which Phryne had lately come was impoverished, even the nobility; and was keeping its head down, still shocked by the Russian revolution. It had become fashionable to make no display; understatement had become most stylish.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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Robinson had long mastered the art of coming instantly awake, a skill which had proved invaluable when his children were young. He could be out of his bed, supplying nutriment, water, or a story, before his wife turned over in her sleep. He attributed his long and happy marriage to the fact that unlike most mothers, his wife got to sleep through the night when he was at home.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder in Montparnasse (Phryne Fisher, #12))
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They had known that it would happen. Yet they had not prevented it. Their world had been overused, abused, their forests logged, their precious fossil fuels wasted, their rich obscenely wealthy, their poor reduced to beggary. They had been powerful enough to put up the satellites, they had plated the landscape with their roads, crisscrossed it with their machines. And now where were they?
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Kerry Greenwood (The Rat and the Raven (Stormbringer, #1))
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So it was that Phryne acquired a skimpy costume of Fugi cotton, with fringes, in a blinding shade of pink known colloquially as β€˜baby’s bottom’, a pair of near-kid boots with two-inch heels, an evening bag fringed and beaded to within an inch of complete inutility, stockings in peach, and a dreadful cloche hat with a drunken brim in electric blue plush. Her method in choosing these garments was simple. Anything at which Dot exclaimed, β€˜Oh, no, Miss!’ she bought.
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Kerry Greenwood (Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1))
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Leviticus was a series of rules for a nomadic desert-dwelling culture, where it was sensible not to eat bacteria-enhanced shellfish or terrine of unclean creeping things, where you needed to isolate people who might have leprosy, granted. But consider: if you wish to condemn yourself to hell for Leviticus 18:22, then you need to carry out all the rest of the lawsβ€”stoning blasphemers, buying foreign slaves, killing witches, making burnt offerings, and slaying those who twist thread of two types, which
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder and Mendelssohn (Phryne Fisher, #20))
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1/2 cup plain flour 1 cup caster sugar 3/4 cup desiccated coconut 4 eggs vanilla 125 g butter, melted 1/2 cup flaked almonds 1 cup milk Grease a deep pie dish and preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Put all the ingredients except half the almonds and the milk in a bowl and mix well, then add the milk slowly and beat until you get a cake batter. Pour it into the pie dish, top with the with rest of the almonds. Bake for about 35 minutes. It miraculously turns itself into a spongy sort of layered coconut cake, lovely with stewed fruit and cream.
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Kerry Greenwood (Dead Man's Chest (Phryne Fisher, #18))
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Oh wondrous,' murmured Lin Chung. 'Oh, water, mistress of earth, valley spirit, eternal feminine!' 'Taoism again?' Phryne leaned close to hear what he was whispering. 'From the "Tao Te Ching." The old Master should have seen this. All made by water, the female, cold, moon principle.' 'Yin,' said Phryne. 'This is the womb of the earth.' 'Indeed.' He took her hand. 'Completely foreign to all male, hot, sun creatures.' 'Like you?' 'Like me. Yang can only admire and tremble.' 'Come along.' She led him into the centre of the huge space. 'We don't want to get lost in the earthmother's insides.
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Kerry Greenwood (Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8))
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Cold leek and potato soup. Little pastry boats filled with minced chicken or fish in a white sauce. A large green salad, a tomato and spring onion salad, a cold roast of beef with horseradish or port wine jelly to taste, cold roasted chickens with sage and onion stuffing, with a variety of crisp cold vegetables, each with their proper sauces. Fruit salad. A marmalade-filled roulade with slices of sugared oranges and crème Chantilly which was even now rolling in its damp tea towel as though there were no such things as culinary accidents in the world. Cheeses and fruits and coffee or tea.
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Kerry Greenwood (Murder and Mendelssohn (Phryne Fisher, #20))