110 Quotes by Kerry Greenwood

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.

This is what ‘forever’ means, my dear. You don’t walk into danger on your own. Not anymore.

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.

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!

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.

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.

A young man in one’s hotel bedroom is capable of being explained, but a corpse is always a hindrance.

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.

Ruth did not approve of young men. So noisy.