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Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8) QUOTES

Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8) QUOTES

1 " Oh wondrous,' murmured Lin Chung. 'Oh, water, mistress of earth, valley spirit, eternal feminine!'
'Taoism again?' Phryne leaned close to hear what he was whispering.
'From the "Tao Te Ching." The old Master should have seen this. All made by water, the female, cold, moon principle.'
'Yin,' said Phryne. 'This is the womb of the earth.'
'Indeed.' He took her hand. 'Completely foreign to all male, hot, sun creatures.'
'Like you?'
'Like me. Yang can only admire and tremble.'
'Come along.' She led him into the centre of the huge space. 'We don't want to get lost in the earthmother's insides. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8)

2 " Phryne was feeling most displeased with a species to which, she reminded herself, she belonged. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8)

3 " It took determination to be really strange. That, or absinthe before breakfast every day. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8)

4 " The butterfly danced on the flower. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8)

5 " He looked like a kobold who had just been told that he was mythical. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8)

6 " Phryne watched as a male chest was bared by skilled hands, to be mouthed and kissed by… Another man. "

― Kerry Greenwood , Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8)