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“Every ruin is packed like a biscuit box.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Dolly and the Starry Bird

“In Rome there is a pathological shortage of small coins. For change, the little shops tend to use candy.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, Dolly and the Starry Bird

“I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights

“Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights

“I see now that there is a great deal in what Aunt Almeria says. She considers that there are terrible pitfalls in Society."

Sir Richard shook his head sadly. "Alas, too true!"

"And vice," said Pen awfully. "Profligacy, and extravagance, you know."

"I know."

She picked up her knife and fork again. "It must be very exciting," she said enviously.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Corinthian

“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

“And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights

“I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings