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“Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions... on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“In the absence of my beloved and much-derided crime board,’ she said, ‘I’ve been reduced to writing things in my journal like some sort of medieval peasant.’ She”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“It’s abductive reasoning, not deductive. Working from observation to theory is abduction, not deduction.’ ‘But”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“Opulence without elegance seems to be her motto.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“What would I do without you?’ I thought for a moment. ‘Starve to death, my lady. In the dark.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“She was utterly devoted to the world’s most preposterous dog.”
― T E Kinsey, A Picture of Murder

“Once we were on the road and safely out of earshot she said, ‘Hot, sweet tea, indeed! We shall have a bracing brandy and the devil take the blessed tea.’ We set off for home.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“And in the centre of the clearing, my dear Florence,’ she was saying, without apparently having broken her conversational stride, ‘we have . . . I say!’ ‘A dead body, my lady?’ I said. ‘I was going to say, “a magnificent English oak”,’ she said, somewhat distractedly, ‘but the body is definitely the more arresting sight.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“They even managed to put the books on the shelves.’ She looked closer. ‘I’m not sure I’d have put Charles Dickens next to Isaac Newton except at a dinner party, and then only if Nellie Melba hadn’t turned up, but they’ve done their best.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“Oh, she’s one of those fortunate creatures whose heads will never be troubled by the arrival of anything so inconvenient as a structured, logical, or even original thought. Nevertheless,”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“It’s abductive reasoning, not deductive. Working from observation to theory is abduction, not deduction.’ ‘But I thought—’ ‘Yes, you and so many other people. We know who to blame, of course, and I’ve written to him more than once care of his publisher, but he takes no notice.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“It’s abductive reasoning, not deductive. Working from observation to theory is abduction, not deduction.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“everything”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“Even without Lady Hardcastle’s scientific education I knew that being suspended by the neck on a length of sturdy rope wasn’t conducive to long life.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“larger than I had expected.’ The driver of the faintly dilapidated cart handed me Lady Hardcastle’s Gladstone while she fished in her purse for her customarily generous tip. With an astonished ‘Thank you, m’lady’, he flicked his whip. The cart clattered off, back towards”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“Count Pfumpfel von Schnerfenflerf.”
― T E Kinsey, Christmas at The Grange

“His quiet confidence in his authority and abilities left him free to treat everyone around him with calm respect.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“If you say they’re right for us, then they’re right for us. I’ll see them tomorrow when they start work. I want to go out for a walk now.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“Are you familiar with the Eastern concept of karma?’ ‘I’ve heard of it, yes. An old sergeant of mine when I was new to the force used to talk about it. “Double Entry Bookkeeping for the Soul”,”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“She pays the bills without looking at them. I overheard her talking to one of her friends once. “If one has to worry about the bills,” she says, “one can’t afford them anyway.” So if that’s the way she sees it, I makes sure to slip a little treat in for us now and again.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“the foot of the servants’ staircase”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“wondered if the Croquet Association might be persuaded to add ‘mischievous large dogs’ to its list of approved equipment.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“You know how these chaps can be. They promise to put everything in its place, but then you move in and find that they’ve put the aspidistra in the bedroom and the piano in the kitchen.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“I’m not sure I’d have put Charles Dickens next to Isaac Newton except at a dinner party, and then only if Nellie Melba hadn’t turned up, but they’ve done their best.”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“should perhaps make allowances. England isn’t all he remembers it to be. I think he has a rather romantic notion of what “Blighty” should be like, and all this has quite shattered his illusions.’ ‘I dare say,’ said the inspector distractedly, as he made some notes in his notebook. There was a knock on the door and Jenkins entered with a tray of coffee, sandwiches, and some shortbread biscuits. ‘Your luncheon, my lady,’ he said, pointedly ignoring the inspector. ‘Mrs Brown thought you might appreciate some biscuits, too.’ ‘She’s very thoughtful, Jenkins,’ said Lady Hardcastle. ‘Please thank her for us.’ ‘Yes, my lady. Will there be anything else?’ ‘No, Jenkins, thank you.’ ‘Very good, my lady,’ he said with a slight bow. He left as quietly as he had entered. Inspector Sunderland seemed to be on the verge of another tirade, but thought better of it and went to pour the coffee instead. ‘Please,’ I said, stepping forward. ‘Allow me.’ ‘Certainly, miss. If you insist.’ ‘Thank you, Inspector,’ I said, as I poured coffee for the two of them. ‘Just doing my duty.’ ‘Don’t show off, Armstrong,’ said Lady Hardcastle. ‘Pour yourself one, too.’ I curtseyed. ‘Thank you, m’lady. You’re very generous to a poor servant”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“feet while Mickey took care of Addie. Once again we were back in Colonel Dawlish’s tent. Veronica and Wilfred were side-by-side, hand-in-hand on the Colonel’s bed, with Addie beside them, while the Colonel himself,”
― T.E. Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“he consulted his notebook, ‘Roland Richman’s Ragtime Revue – whatever happened to a good old sing-song round the piano, that’s what I’d like to know?”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country

“They sold all their waking hours to someone else in return for a few bob to pay for a roof over our heads and food on the table.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“Stupid murderers and their stupid murders.”
― T E Kinsey, In the Market for Murder

“vicar of St Arild’s Church, was the first to call, bearing a rather formidable fruitcake baked in Lady Hardcastle’s honour by his wife who, he assured her, would be calling on her own account within a day or two. A butcher’s boy from Spratt’s called with a note introducing”
― T E Kinsey, A Quiet Life in the Country