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The Secrets of Wishtide (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery #1) QUOTES

The Secrets of Wishtide (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery #1) QUOTES

1 " I have often observed that the state of motherhood can turn quite ordinary females into heroines . . . "

― , The Secrets of Wishtide (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery #1)

2 " So much of people's fortune, good or bad, depends upon how they choose to fall in love. "

― , The Secrets of Wishtide (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery #1)

3 " I never allowed myself to forget how it had felt to be young and in love. "

― , The Secrets of Wishtide (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery #1)

4 " he prayed with them up to the very gallows if he could. ‘It’s the duty of any half-decent clergyman to walk into Hell itself,’ he used to say. ‘We’re needed most where God is least. "

― , The Secrets of Wishtide (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery #1)

5 " I know how it feels to have a comfortable world suddenly turn against you,’ I replied. ‘My husband died, and poverty made my sorrow ten times "

― , The Secrets of Wishtide (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery #1)

6 " The housekeeper, Mrs Craik, came "

― , The Secrets of Wishtide (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery #1)

7 " (People don’t seem to make Smoking Bishop nowadays: it’s a fragrant concoction of red wine, port wine and spices, and my beloved Matt was very fond of a glass directly after a chilly Matins; you must first stick a lemon with cloves and sugar-lumps, roast it beside a medium fire until caramelized, then place in your pan of wine to simmer gently for twenty minutes.) "

― , The Secrets of Wishtide (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery #1)

8 " but some conventions cannot "

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9 " The secret of my mincemeat was handed down to me by my dear mother. In a word, suet. "

― , The Secrets of Wishtide (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery #1)

10 " Do we know anything about Drummond – apart from what the cheese-woman said about his fondness for horse-racing? "

― , The Secrets of Wishtide (A Laetitia Rodd Mystery #1)