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1 " Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again. "
― Kerry Greenwood , Dead Man's Chest (Phryne Fisher, #18)
2 " Lust was a reliable emotion, but greed was altogether simpler to satisfy and you got to keep your clothes on. "
3 " Money can’t buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery. "
4 " 1/2 cup plain flour 1 cup caster sugar 3/4 cup desiccated coconut 4 eggs vanilla 125 g butter, melted 1/2 cup flaked almonds 1 cup milk Grease a deep pie dish and preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Put all the ingredients except half the almonds and the milk in a bowl and mix well, then add the milk slowly and beat until you get a cake batter. Pour it into the pie dish, top with the with rest of the almonds. Bake for about 35 minutes. It miraculously turns itself into a spongy sort of layered coconut cake, lovely with stewed fruit and cream. "
5 " Then she heaved over a strange round object, like a big basket made of rushes with a tarred overcoat of—canvas, perhaps? Hugh had never seen such a thing before and said so. ‘’Tis a curragh,’ Mr. O’Malley told him. ‘Other boats use a dinghy but they have to haul it and that’s a drag on a boat. Good sticks they’ve got here, they call them manuka, for making of a true Irish boat. Me and my daughter made it ourselves; it’s just the same as a very big cray pot, so it is. Good manila line here and there’s me corks. Over you go now, my girl, and God be between you and harm.’ Gráinne lowered herself down into the little boat, which bobbed like a duck, and began paddling towards a buoy. When she reached it, she hooked the marker onto a line which the old man began hauling. "
