110 Quotes by Kerry Greenwood

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!

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.

Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't.

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

Some to whom evil is done resolve never to inflict such pain on anyone and become very good indeed.

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.

This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.

The trouble with the world is that you forget that there are good people in it.

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.