The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

by Richard Osman

Time flies when you are living it.

There’s a thin line between wearing overalls and going to the shop in your pajamas.

I would say I found him attractive, except he turned out to be a bit boring, and I can’t find boring men attractive. Believe me, I’ve tried. Wouldn’t it make life simpler?

This is my point about boring men and exciting men. Gerry would never be driven out to sea and shot, but he was a hundred times more exciting than this Lomax.

“Some people in life, Sue, are weather forecasters, whereas other people are the weather itself.”

“Looking at a man you love isn’t romantic, Joyce,” says Elizabeth. “It’s just the sensible thing to do. Like watching a television program you like.”

If you ended up living somewhere with llamas then perhaps not all is bad.

You didn’t get to be a fifty-one-year-old man by tackling things head-on.