Quotes from Kerry Greenwood

Phryne escaped from the babble to go outside and scan the ground in front of the broken window.

Pity he had few brains and very little style. She was wondering why no scientist had yet invented social skills in an injectable form when a sharp voice cut through her thoughts.

You broke the window, Bobby, and you pinched the necklace. Do you want to confess or shall I tell you how you did it?

No one gets lied to as much as mothers. Necessity is the mother of deduction.

We went out to investigate and found the maid collapsed on the path, gasping that Miss Lavender was dead. I looked inside the cottage. I did not touch anything. I saw Miss Lavender on the floor, dead as a doornail. I sent my niece inside and informed Mrs. Needham that she had a vacancy. I know nothing else about the matter.

The artists considered musicians nothing more than background noise which interrupted important discussions on Modernism.

As I said to that policeman, I don't know. I've

ONE As from the pow'r of Sacred Lays The Spheres began to move; And sung the great Creator's praise

Look what science did in the war,' he said soberly. 'We found new and horrible ways to kill people. I decided that we had to be useful, or there was no excuse for us.

The rooming house in Carlton where they both lived presently lodged three cats and two dogs which had all been found in extremis and nursed back to aggressive, barking, scratching health by his partner.

rummaging furiously in a mind which appeared to have entirely lost its card index....

The state is a matter of consent,' I heard old Master Tiraes instruct her as she sat at his feet. 'The king and the subjects all agree that one shall rule and others shall be ruled. Decisions taken by a king, therefore, bind his followers, but they cannot be forced too far, because then they will depose the king and seek another, better able to carry out their will.

The only way to win this cat-and-mouse game, as the Cat said in Red Dwarf, was not to be the mouse.

Not a sane one amongst the three of us," murmured John. Phryne laughed and kissed him. "We shall be happy lunatics," she told him. "Sanity is overrated.

No, really," said Jack, blushing to show that he wasn't embarrassed at all. "Do

Those cigarettes were beckoning. Come to us, they said. You remember us. I did remember them. My love affair with tobacco had been long and passionate.

What have you got against Germans? The War's over, you know.

Come along,' I told the donkey. 'There's a precedent for this.' Manny

Sleeping children gained weight according to the depth of their sleep.

I ate a rough country terrine made of truffled pork with thyme and forgot about talking.

women as a sex and particularly

Padre always told me me language was sulphurous.

Her Beretta was holstered in her garter worn high on her thigh, under the shapeless blue dress. She had donned shoes in which she could run. The high heels had done their work and could be presented to the poor, assuming that they wanted to court a broken ankle along with their other problems. Along her forearm, covered by the loose sleeve, her throwing knife was strapped. Phryne, as a helpless victim, was a complete failure.

I looked over Jordan, and what did I see? Coming for to carry me home A band of Angels coming after me Coming for to carry me home.