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I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.

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

She looked as plump and self-confident as the city pigeons outside, and as sure of her place.

Padre always told me me language was sulphurous.

I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

Sleeping children gained weight according to the depth of their sleep.

First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.

It was always easier to genuinely praise than to try and find something nice to say about rubbish.

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.

The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.

Champagne,' she added to the hovering wine waiter. 'The Widow '23.

Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.

We learn love from the people who love us.

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

One only has a few fragrant nights of spring. Store your memories for when you are old. You will enjoy them again under such a moon as this.

The difficulty, my asclepid, is not to govern people, but to make them govern themselves,

I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.

She had always found platypuses irresistible proof that God likes a joke as much as anyone else.

In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.

If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.

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

And is it any wonder that the poor woman broke out into fairies when she had been deprived of any fiction in her youth?

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.

It's always good business practice to eliminate any potential avengers.

I looked over Jordan, and what did I see? Coming for to carry me home A band of Angels coming after me Coming for to carry me home.

No cook can ignore the opinion of a man who asks for three helpings. One is politeness, two is hunger, but three is a true and cherished compliment.

One can dare a lot if one is Emeritus,

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

I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death.

women as a sex and particularly

Never trust a man who bites the heads off chickens is probably a good sound rule of practice.

My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.

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

I liked the Ballarat train as a child.

Now we will all die. What a pity. I haven't done half the wicked things I wanted to do, and the ones I have done I haven't done anything like enough.

The world is too harsh a place to contemplate directly, without a cushion of fancy and belief.

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

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

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

You know how I feel about pretty boys - there aren't enough of them in the world as it is - we can't have people wantonly removing them.

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

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.

I believe in absolutely nothing except yeast and the inevitability of politicians.

Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not.

With all the sweetness of a chocolate-coated razor-blade.

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

The young will no longer be advised by the old," she said to the hall porter.
"That is because we advised them to die," said the hall porter.

Ruth did not approve of young men. So noisy.

This is what 'forever' means, my dear. You don't walk into danger on your own. Not anymore.

Lust was a reliable emotion, but greed was altogether simpler to satisfy and you got to keep your clothes on.

No, really," said Jack, blushing to show that he wasn't embarrassed at all. "Do

I always like cases when the victim's been practically begging to be killed. It means I don't have to be sorry for him.

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

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

Piracy is a lot of fun; you should try it.

She dropped on his chest with both knees and vengefully banged his head on the floor, once to knock him out and twice because it made her feel better.

Bert was short and stout. Cec was tall and lanky. Between them, there was nothing that they could not reach.

Good morning, Meroe,' I said, dusting uselessly at my tracksuit pants. 'Might I interest you in today's special, pre-floured kitten?

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again.

I don't like the idea of being killed by fools. I shall have to ensure that this does not happen.

She wondered, briefly, if she was beautiful, decided she was and blew a kiss to her reflection

I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.

I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time.

Unanswered questions make my head itch.

Not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living!

Come along,' I told the donkey. 'There's a precedent for this.' Manny