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1 " One would have thought that not even Joyce could have maltreated a salad to the point where it became inedible, but one would have been wrong. Abustle with wild life, it was also soaked in a vinegary dressing. Barnaby lifted a soggy lettuce leaf. A small insect emerged, valiantly swimming against the tide. "
― Caroline Graham , The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby #1)
2 " Everyone had helped themselves to something with the exception of Fred, who had helped himself to everything. "
― Caroline Graham , Murder At Madingley Grange
3 " Ah—that’s the beauty of higher education, sergeant. Never use two simple words when one really complicated one will do. "
― Caroline Graham , Written In Blood (Chief Inspector Barnaby #4)
4 " The library at Madingley Grange was rarely used. The pristine books in their diamond-paned cases seemed never to have been sullied by anything so coarse as the perusal of the human eye. "
5 " We try on many masks throughout our lives. Eventually we find one that fits so well we never take it off. "
― Caroline Graham , Death In Disguise (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #3)
6 " The stars in their courses, never all that concerned with the welfare of the human race, tonight looked especially indifferent. "
― Caroline Graham , Death Of A Hollow Man (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #2)
7 " All theatricals are round the twist, Troy,’ said Barnaby, tugging at the doors that led to the foyer. ‘If they weren’t they’d get out of the business and into real estate. "
8 " They had always seemed to Brenda antiseptically unaware that such a thing as romance existed. "
― Caroline Graham , Faithful Unto Death (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #5)
9 " a trouble shared is a trouble halved’. "
10 " argument before he was "
― Caroline Graham , A Place Of Safety (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #6)
11 " Crashingly insensitive to the feelings of others, Troy’s own sensibilities were fragile to a fault. He was on his high horse at the merest hint of criticism. "
12 " Unburdened by any medical knowledge, what would they think of Karen's strange ramblings? The answer came quickly enough. They would think she was making it up. What an imagination, they would say. And if it all went a stage further? Would they see this as genuine derangement, as he had done? Probably not. They would say she'd been watching too much telly. Or eating cheese before bedtime. "
― Caroline Graham , A Ghost In The Machine (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #7)
13 " Never forget, she used to tell him, that Jesus loves you. Personally he’d never felt this and, even if it had been true, would have gained little consolation—for who wanted to be loved by someone who loved everybody? And then only because it was their job. "
14 " I had a sports teacher like that,’ said Troy when Janet had departed. ‘Knobbly knees, plimsolls, no tits, whistle round her neck. They really turn me up, dykes. All members of the buggerocracy, come to that. "
15 " Where are you coming from on this?’ cried Heather, tossing her head back and revealing briefly an embryonic suggestion of what might have been, in the fullness of time, given intensive exercise and a great deal of hugely expensive plastic surgery, the whimsical beginnings of a chin. Ken "
16 " Nicholas, who had never seen the willingness to embrace septicemia as one of the more obvious qualities a young actor might find useful, jibbed at this robust assertion. “There. "
17 " All human life seemed to be out there. And it was not a pretty sight. "
18 " Naturally it was thought, for there is nothing more conservative than an English village, that such a man must be in need of assistance. "
19 " In his experience people (hardened criminals apart) who had something to hide and people who had nothing to hide had one thing in common. Faced by a policeman asking questions, they could never remain silent for long. "
20 " A stranger in a small community is always an object of keen interest and he had seen more than one curtain twitch as he passed by. "
