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21 " If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Death at Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher, #4)
22 " He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
23 " A young man in one’s hotel bedroom is capable of being explained, but a corpse is always a hindrance. "
24 " ... with all the sweetness of a chocolate-coated razor-blade. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher, #2)
25 " I believe in absolutely nothing except yeast and the inevitability of politicians. "
― Kerry Greenwood
26 " Her heart was beating appreciably faster, and she took more rapid breaths, but she was enjoying herself. Adventuresses are born, not made. "
27 " Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery. "
28 " No cook can ignore the opinion of a man who asks for three helpings. One is politeness, two is hunger, but three is a true and cherished compliment. "
― Kerry Greenwood , The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher, #5)
29 " the first Goddess, Gaia, who was the earth, wide hipped, big bellied, the womb of the human race, the nurturing breast of all humans, the opulent and voracious beginning of all things female. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Trick or Treat (Corinna Chapman, #4)
30 " My own view is that everyone works too hard and too long and they ought to get out more. There isn’t time in their improverished lives to do anything creative, or even to just sit and stare, one of my favourite occupations. And how the wired-in young—never without their music, never out of touch because of mobile phones, constantly sharing everything, even pictures—are going to cope if they ever encounter solitude and silence is another thing. "
31 " She was sensible of the fact that while there were two sets of masculine arms to fall into, and one of them her current pet, Phryne had fallen into Dot’s. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Murder on the Ballarat Train (Phryne Fisher, #3)
32 " And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said—and she had the Sight—“Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living!” And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels—or devils. "
33 " I can’t afford to spend days in self loathing as everyone expects fat women to do. Self loathing eats your life. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Earthly Delights (Corinna Chapman, #1)
34 " Phryne was feeling most displeased with a species to which, she reminded herself, she belonged. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8)
35 " Now we will all die. What a pity. I haven't done half the wicked things I wanted to do, and the ones I have done I haven't done anything like enough. "
36 " She wondered, briefly, if she was beautiful, decided she was and blew a kiss to her reflection "
37 " I always like cases when the victim's been practically begging to be killed. It means I don't have to be sorry for him. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Murder and Mendelssohn (Phryne Fisher, #20)
38 " The world is too harsh a place to contemplate directly, without a cushion of fancy and belief. "
39 " This is what 'forever' means, my dear. You don't walk into danger on your own. Not anymore. "
40 " schadenfreude, "
― Kerry Greenwood , Heavenly Pleasures (Corinna Chapman, #2)