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101 " Phyrne leaned on the ship's rail, listening to the sea-gulls announcing that land was near, and waited for the first hint of sunrise. She had put on her lounging robe, of a dramatic oriental pattern of green and gold, an outfit not to be sprung suddenly on invalids or those of nervous tendencies-and she was rather glad that there was no one on deck to be astonished. It was five o'clock in the morning. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
102 " I made a jelly with gelatine, ginger syrup and pineapple juice. I made a crème anglaise with three eggs. I whipped a lot of cream. I chopped glacé ginger. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Forbidden Fruit (Corinna Chapman, #5)
103 " Li Pen "
― Kerry Greenwood , The Castlemaine Murders (Phryne Fisher, #13)
104 " His wife, she was told by a chatty guidebook, had been born in Paris, and had taken Directoire ideas and married them to Old British Empire with verandahs. It was built of red brick with cornices and gargoyles and was so very, very vulgar that it was magnificent. Its total disregard of all canons of taste was dramatic and oddly endearing. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Death at Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher, #4)
105 " The face a smooth oval, unlined, serene, but a soft full mouth, tucked firmly in at the corners as though her sense of the ridiculous had survived years of relentless theology. Charming. "
106 " Bert swore, trousered his gun, and found a stub of pencil which he licked, then used to write down the car’s number on his far-from-white cuff. "
107 " Phryne escaped from the babble to go outside and scan the ground in front of the broken window. "
108 " 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. "
― Kerry Greenwood , The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher, #5)
109 " You broke the window, Bobby, and you pinched the necklace. Do you want to confess or shall I tell you how you did it? "
110 " Plump pink prawns studded the seafood aspic as thickly as daisies in a springtime meadow. "
111 " No one gets lied to as much as mothers. Necessity is the mother of deduction. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Earthly Delights (Corinna Chapman, #1)
112 " 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. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Away with the Fairies (Phryne Fisher, #11)
113 " The artists considered musicians nothing more than background noise which interrupted important discussions on Modernism. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Murder in Montparnasse (Phryne Fisher, #12)
114 " As I said to that policeman, I don’t know. I’ve "
115 " ONE As from the pow’r of Sacred Lays The Spheres began to move; And sung the great Creator’s praise "
― Kerry Greenwood , Murder and Mendelssohn (Phryne Fisher, #20)
116 " She had met women of this cast of mind before—the clingers, fragile and utterly ruthless, who wore down friend after friend with their emotional demands, always ill and exhausted and badly treated, but still retaining enough energy to scream reproaches at the retreating friend as she fled, guilt-stricken, down the hall. And the next week to replace that friend—always female—with another. Phryne recognized Mrs Andrews as an emotional trap, and had no choice but to throw herself in. "
117 " The thing about pain,” he went on, “is that it makes you feel rather lonely. "
118 " 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. "
119 " .rummaging furiously in a mind which appeared to have entirely lost its card index.... "
― Kerry Greenwood
120 " 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. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Cassandra (Delphic Women, #2)