Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

~Gwendolen was so touched that she wept, but quietly, for her mother would have been monstrously jealous of such emotions. She had claimed grief for her own long ago.~

~You’ve made frame sound very pedestrian, Chief Inspector. It’s a word that seems to demand a sparkle.~

~’I’m not entirely sure what happened, but Pierrots were involved.’

‘Pierrots?’ Frobisher echoed. Dear God, was there no end to the dratted creatures?~

~What on earth did people see in books? They were so boring, although not, the Greek myths, she was willing to make an exception for them. If only books were edible, how much more use they would be!~

~The worst thing was that he laughed all the time, as if it was the greatest joke in the world to try and choke a girl to death.~

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