Murder Most Unladylike Quotes

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After all, grown-ups always underestimate children. Children never underestimate each other.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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One of the rules of the Detective Society is that we never say no to tea.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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There were always things lurking, ready to throw your life off balance.
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Robin Stevens (First Class Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #3))
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I don’t like to see girls wasting their talents. You are both clever, that I can see. And if you have brains, you ought to use them. It isn’t good for women to be ignored and side-lined.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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It is funny how public the English are about disliking their families, even when it is not really true. Love is a secret to them, hate, far less so.
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Robin Stevens (Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike, #4))
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promising!) was oddly disappointing, but what happened
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Robin Stevens (Murder Most Unladylike (Wells and Wong, #1))
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Growing up, I thought, seemed to be something that mostly happened when you weren’t looking.
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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That is the problem with imagination – the more you use it, the more you see that the world in your head is not really the world you live in at all.
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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I realized all over again how odd the English are. No matter how bad things get, they can always make light of them.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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Tell that boy that we are detectives, and we have solved FIVE MURDER CASES!’ snarled Daisy. I looked at her, astonished – apparently, she can tell when the Detective Society is being demeaned in any language.
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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I thought to myself that, if life was acting, it was a pity that I was no good at acting at all.
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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But,’ Mr Mansour cried, β€˜you are girls! Girls cannot be in the police!
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Robin Stevens (Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike, #9))
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I was so angry that I only thought about the sticky toffee pudding twice on the way out.
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Robin Stevens (Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike, #4))
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we never say no to tea.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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Sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to, to protect things we love.
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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There were carollers singing beside King’s College Chapel as we passed, their breath smoking with the song.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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It was full of the most delicious displays, piled high with pink and white fancies, cakes piped with cream and scattered with nuts, and absolutely heaps of swirled golden-brown buns. They were studded with raisins and dripping with syrup. My mouth watered. It had been hours since those train sandwiches, their cheese slightly warm and their chutney gluey. Beyond the buns I saw tables full of people enjoying splendid teas. My stomach gurgled.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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Tea had been set out on the table, ready for our arrival. It was simple but delicious: muffins, ham, boiled eggs, and toast and butter, with Christmas cake for dessert.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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shrimps
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Robin Stevens (Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike, #1))
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You are getting quite queenly, Hazel Wong,
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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I blushed, feeling very un-queen-like.
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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that
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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me than England is to you!’ I pointed out. β€˜Goodness,’ said Daisy, blinking. β€˜What an odd, Alice-in-Wonderland thought that is!
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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I was particularly amazed because boys, to her, are usually simply less interesting versions of girls.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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You are still my best friend in all the world, and the best detective I know who is not me.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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Daisy’s plans are often quite mad, but this one seemed to have more than the usual chance of one or both of us dying.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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GOODNESS ME!’ said Daisy very loudly beside me. β€˜IS THERE PRAWN IN THIS DUMPLING?
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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They made us all so miserable that even the nicest girls began to argue and snipe at each other horribly
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Robin Stevens (Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike, #4))
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I suddenly wondered whether growing up only meant you were older, not more wise.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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I accept.
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Robin Stevens (Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike, #9))
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It’s snowing!’ I said in delight.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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(you see, not all of our Big Girls go to university. Most are only presented at Court and go on to marry Lords with no chins).
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Robin Stevens (Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike, #4))
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Mr Reid had rugged cheekbones and a dashing
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Robin Stevens (Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike, #1))
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it is no good being nice if the people you are being nice to are not nice themselves.
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Robin Stevens (Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike, #4))
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I breathed in the green heat and the dirt and the cooked-bun smell that is Hong Kong to me. β€˜Yes,’ I said, and I could feel myself smiling. β€˜It smells like home.’ β€˜Not my home!’ said Daisy, sniffing bravely and trying not to use her handkerchief. β€˜But – well, I suppose this is an adventure. I must just get used to it!
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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My good sir,' he said, 'do you know to whom you are speaking? I am the Prince of Bengal and these are my friends, the Princess of Kowloon and the Duke of Massachusettes. We are waiting for my father, the Maharajah, to come out of this bookshop so he can take us to the Ritz for tea. Do you intend to prevent us from going about our business?
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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Miss Alston cut a pear into smaller and smaller segments until it practically vanished. Uncle Felix bit into his napkin instead of his bacon, and seemed not to even notice. Lord Hastings only picked at his kedgeree, looking grey, and shifted about in his chair as though he were sitting on a spider. Chapman was behaving oddly too. He kept glancing at Lord Hastings, and then looking away again, as though desperate to say something but unable to get it out.
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Robin Stevens (Arsenic For Tea (Murder Most Unladylike, #2))
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heart fluttered.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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and I imagined her, straight-backed, glaring at her guest from her sofa.
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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Beanie
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Robin Stevens (Arsenic For Tea (Murder Most Unladylike, #2))
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We were back at the crime scene, the table where Mrs Rivers had been taken ill only a few hours before. I stared around at it, remembering what I had seen last night, and shuddered.
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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Really, Hazel has become bold this term. Anyone would think she was becoming her own person
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Robin Stevens (The Case of the Deepdean Vampire (Murder Most Unladylike, #4.5))
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We know that he gains Β£2,000 from Mrs. Daunt’s willβ€”enough to make the murder seem worthwhile.
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Robin Stevens (First Class Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #3))
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Sarah,” boomed Mr. Daunt, β€œfollow meβ€”I need to speak to you . . .” And through the door they both came. But as soon as they were inside Sarah’s arms went around his neck, and he bent his face to hers, his nasty moustache rubbing against her mouth. They were kissing. We stood there, frozen in amazement. Then Mr. Daunt saw us and jumped away from Sarah with a yell. Sarah screamed. β€œWhat are you DOING in here?” Mr. Daunt bellowed at us. β€œWe were waiting for Hetty!” gasped Daisy, all shocked innocence. You would think she had never seen anything scandalous before in her life. β€œWhat were youβ€”Oh!
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Robin Stevens (First Class Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #3))
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I arrived from Hong Kong part way through second form, and even then, when we were all still shrimps (shrimps, for this new casebook, is what we call the little lower-form girls), Daisy was already famous throughout Deepdean School. She rode horses, was part of the lacrosse team, and was a member of the Drama Society. The Big Girls took notice of her, and by May the entire school knew that the Head Girl herself had called Daisy a β€˜good sport’.
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Robin Stevens (Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike, #1))
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suppose, in a way, I have been getting into trunks for Daisy ever since, without stopping to ask why. This is the first time I have wondered if it is really all worth it.
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Robin Stevens (Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike, #1))
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Baliostra, speaking in very low growls (I worried rather about the state of Madame Melinda’s throat),
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Robin Stevens (First Class Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #3))
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Life is acting,
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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I stared around us. Christmas parcels were piled in every corner, pushed under tables among tired shoppers' feet. Above the steam from the teapots and the waft of the fresh buns there was a sharp scent of pine from the boughs hung up in the corners of the roomβ€”it was all wonderfully festive, and I loved it.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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The study might be faded, but it was still one of the most beautiful rooms I had ever been in. The red velvet curtains might be rather frayed and old, and the chairs mismatched, but a log fire crackled in the grate, and the white walls were all but hidden by shelves and shelves of books. They went up almost to the ceiling, and the books looked worn with use and love. My heart swelled.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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The lamps were lit, and the candles on the Christmas tree were burning. They made the tinsel glitter, the fronds of it floating gently, like fur or feathers. It all looked wonderfully festive.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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The fire was blazing, and in front of the fire guard were propped two bulging stockings. I could see bars of chocolate and fudge, packets of Turkish Delight, and tangerines in silver foil. Next to them were piles of presents, beautifully wrapped in tissue paper and ribbon. The room was festooned with green, spicy boughs, and breakfast was laid out on the low table next to the sofa: muffins and bread ready to be toasted, and eggs and bacon still steaming.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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not to blackmail them or do anything awful like that,
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Robin Stevens (Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike, #1))
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There were carolers singing beside King's College Chapel as we passed, their breath smoking with the song. Christmas was everywhereβ€”in the bright window shops, in the parcels done up with string, the Christmas trees and boughs of holly, the sides of ham and poor drooping geese being carried home on shoulders and bicycles by bright-cheeked passers-by.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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Then the doors were thrown open for us, and inside was a scene from a painting, a dining hall even grander and more ornate than Maudlin's, all stone and stained glass, with an enormous tree in the corner, decorated and lit. On the long wooden tables turkeys gleamed like chestnuts, bowls of cranberry sauce and piles of potatoes and stuffing and roast vegetables. Christmas crackers were laid out at each place, and students were filing in, wearing their formal caps and gowns.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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But she only wrote down our tea order rather distractedly (hot cocoa, Chelsea buns, four different sorts of sandwiches, and lemon cake) and then rushed away.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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I felt my stomach rumble. We had been eating little bits of things, cake and mince pies, all day, but although they were delicious I was longing for butter and toast, or potatoes with a thick stew. I wanted the certainty of a proper meal, proof that ordinary life was carrying on outside our strange little bubble.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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walke
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Robin Stevens (Once Upon a Crime (Murder Most Unladylike, #6.5, 8.5))
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nerve.
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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For once, I simply needed her because she was my best friend.
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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Beware, Miss Wong,
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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There is a huge golden globe in the middle of the floor, that you can spin and put your finger on and trace the countries sliding away under your hand. I used to love to do it when I was little.
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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Ah Lan brushed a strand of hair off his face, looking thoughtful. It was a little like one of Alexander’s gestures, I thought, and my heart jumped just to think of him. But this boy, of course, wasn’t like Alexander at all.
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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We’re not in a book!’ I cried. It would be quite lovely to know that, no matter what happens, everything will turn out all right in the end, but Daisy and I can never be sure of that.
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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I’m glad you’re on the case,’ he said. β€˜I’m sorry I had to lie to get you to the meeting. You really are fearless.’ β€˜Daisy’s fearless,’ I said automatically. β€˜Not me.’ β€˜Oh?’ said Ah Lan, raising an eyebrow. β€˜If you say so.
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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wrong,
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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When you are dressed wrong, it is all you can think about. You can almost smell the way people are looking at you, and you are too busy shrivelling up inside to be able to think cleverly.
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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Daisy, like Sophie, likes the bland school food we are served, and never salts anything.
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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cook? Good grief!
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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began
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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What if you were the heroine all along? No, that wouldn’t be anywhere near as good a story.
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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bound by bells and bedtimes;
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Robin Stevens (Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike, #4))
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never say no to tea.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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Siu lung bau. Har gau. Fung tsao. Lo bak go. Tsaa leung. Char siu bao,
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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What an odd, Alice-in-Wonderland thought that is!
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Robin Stevens (A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6))
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I’m here, darlings,
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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thought to myself that, if life was acting, it was a pity that I was no good at acting at all.
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookest pale.
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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don’t tell me to think more quickly!
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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Montefiore,
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Robin Stevens (Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike, #4))
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first-class carriage
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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HIT IT, LAVINIA!’ Mr Temple whooped. β€˜Would you mind NOT shouting?’ Mr Thompson-Bates asked crossly, turning towards him.
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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Lavinia narrowed her eyes, threw the ball into the air and slammed her racket into it as though she was crushing the skulls of her enemies.
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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Once again, the pieces of the mystery were flung up into the air, coming down in quite a different shape.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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Really, Daisy!’ said Aunt Eustacia. β€˜How many of these cases have you been mixed up in now? It hardly seems healthy.’ β€˜But I’m healthy as anything,’ said Daisy, folding her hands together primly. β€˜It’s all coincidence, Aunt E. Hazel and I can’t help it if adventure happens to fall into our laps.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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really is silly when adults try to protect children, as though we are not on our way to becoming adults ourselves. We need to understand the world, and they only have themselves to blame if we must creep about and lie to them to make sure we do it.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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pronounced
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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She has washerwoman’s skin, and, since she was stuck face down, lividity has caused the face and neck to have pronounced purple discoloration and swelling. It is impossible to tell much else from the body, I’m afraid.
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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Sorry, Miss Barnard; yes, Miss Barnard,
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Robin Stevens (Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8))
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Why do you always ruin the nice things you say?’ I cried. β€˜Because I’m English,’ said Daisy. β€˜I should think you’d understand that by now.
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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But it took Inigo a while to get to the murder. He could not stop talking about the Rue and its successes. In a way, I thought, that was rather like a magician doing a trick, making you watch the bright thing in his right hand so you will not see the truly important thing in his left.
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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a bit – no, wait, I do believe you’re taller!
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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I can't wait until I'm twenty. I shall go dancing all night and not bother with sleep at all.
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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I know you think that every dreadful thing that happens in the world is because you didn't stop it, but the truth is that dreadful things would happen anyway, even if you had never been born. The excellent fact is that you were born, and that means that you have the chance to make the world a slightly less horrid place
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Robin Stevens (Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7))
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Nowhere in the world was really safe, was it? There were always things lurking, ready to throw your life off balance.
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Robin Stevens (First Class Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #3))
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Boys, to her, are usually simply less interesting versions of girls.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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People are beautifully predictable- give them the chance to see anything, and they lose interest in it at once.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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Things are all very well, but they don't make any sense without people.
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Robin Stevens (Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #5))
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I glanced back at Mrs Vitellius as we left, and I thought she looked rather cheerful. She knew that she had the head start on us – how could we hope to solve the case before she did?
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Robin Stevens (First Class Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #3))
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closed.
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Robin Stevens (First Class Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #3))