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Raisins and Almonds (Phryne Fisher, #9) QUOTES

Raisins and Almonds (Phryne Fisher, #9) QUOTES

1 " The Albion was a spacious pub, built in the days when a public house with any pretensions to gentility had to have fourteen foot ceilings, brass taps and a polished wooden bar you skate down. ... Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if heaven didn't have a well-appointed pub where a man could sit down over a beer for a yarn with the other angels, then he didn't want to go there. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Raisins and Almonds (Phryne Fisher, #9)

2 " This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Raisins and Almonds (Phryne Fisher, #9)

3 " His dad had always told him that the red-faced were blusterers, not to be taken seriously. 'But if you see a bloke who's pale and shaking, son,' Bert's father had instructed, 'then run like blazes, because he might flamin' kill you. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Raisins and Almonds (Phryne Fisher, #9)