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Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1) QUOTES

Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1) QUOTES

1 " In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies?
Phryne laughed.
No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. look at that one---you'd swear he had been hitting the gin. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

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

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

3 " I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

4 " He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

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

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

6 " Her heart was beating appreciably faster, and she took more rapid breaths, but she was enjoying herself. Adventuresses are born, not made. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

7 " 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. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

8 " Both had suggestive bulges in their pockets which told of either huge genitalia or trousered pistols. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

9 " The Colonel was far too firmly married and full of military honours to be a threat to Phryne’s virtue, or what remained of it, so she agreed. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

10 " One invited artists to social events, but only for the pleasure of their company. To invite singers or dancers to perform for their supper was inexpressively vulgar, and deserved a prompt and stinging rebuke. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

11 " the folly of men makes me seriously angry. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

12 " not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

13 " They are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. Look at that one—you’d swear he had been hitting the gin. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

14 " She restored herself with a cocktail and an excellent lobster mayonnaise. Phryne was devoted to lobster mayonnaise, with cucumbers. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

15 " All this display, while the working classes were pinched beyond bearing; it was not wise, or tasteful: it smacked of ostentatious wealth. The Europe from which Phryne had lately come was impoverished, even the nobility; and was keeping its head down, still shocked by the Russian revolution. It had become fashionable to make no display; understatement had become most stylish. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

16 " His voice was heavy with Slavic fatalism. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

17 " So it was that Phryne acquired a skimpy costume of Fugi cotton, with fringes, in a blinding shade of pink known colloquially as ‘baby’s bottom’, a pair of near-kid boots with two-inch heels, an evening bag fringed and beaded to within an inch of complete inutility, stockings in peach, and a dreadful cloche hat with a drunken brim in electric blue plush. Her method in choosing these garments was simple. Anything at which Dot exclaimed, ‘Oh, no, Miss!’ she bought. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

18 " 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)

19 " Phryne escaped from the babble to go outside and scan the ground in front of the broken window. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

20 " You broke the window, Bobby, and you pinched the necklace. Do you want to confess or shall I tell you how you did it? "

― Kerry Greenwood , Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)