Adelaide Quotes

“Once Smith had you, he would most likely have tried to negotiate for the lamp."
Everything inside her warmed gently. "You'd give up the lamp if you thought my life depended on it?"
"Without a second thought."
"Oh, Griffin, I'm truly touched. I know how important the lamp is to you."
"And then I'd slit the bastard's throat."
She groaned and rested her forehead on her knees. "Two birds with one lamp. Who says a crime lord can't be a romantic at heart?”
― Amanda Quick, Burning Lamp

“I agree. I certainly like your mouth”
― Richelle Mead, The Glittering Court

“Don't you know that I'd lie with you in the groves, under the light of the moon? That I'd defy the laws of gods and men for you?”
― Richelle Mead, The Glittering Court

“It was tricky to explain how much light and darkness could exist in the same setting”
― Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

“For a moment, all I could think of was my cousin Peter. He was twice my age—and married. By the rules of decent, he would be the one to inherit the Rothford title if I died without children. Whenever he was in town, he'd stop by and ask how I was feeling”
― Richelle Mead, The Glittering Court

“...the reality of late summer and early autumn when Adelaide, more than any place on earth, and as simply as pouring tea from a pot, pours fourth from a lavish cornucopia into gardens and parks and markets and arcade stalls a cascade of carnations and grapes and melons, guavas and Michaelmas daisies and tomatoes, zinnias and belladonna lilies and tuberoses, lavender and quinces and cumquats and pomegranates, roses and roses and roses.”
― Hal Porter, Paper Chase

“Summer in Adelaide: the nourishing and destructive golds, the soft fruit and the fire.”
― Kerryn Goldsworthy, Adelaide

“A lemon tree was nearly universal; other trees varied with climate - almond trees in Adelaide and Perth, plums and apples in Melbourne, choke vines and bananas in Sydney and Brisbane, a mango in Cairns, figs and loquats everywhere. For a few weeks, there was a gross overabundance of fruit and much trading ('I'll take some of your plums if you take some of my apples next month').”
― George Seddon

“Celebrating Valentine's Day is like falling in love with South Australia all over again.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“South Australia may be my valentine, but Adelaide will always be my wife.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“What was it he sensed beneath the charm of Adelaide's wide ordered streets, grand Georgian and Victorian buildings and symmetrical leafy green squares? It is variously known as the Garden City, the City of Churches, the Athens of the South, the jewel in the national crown of arts and sciences. A city, above all, cultured and civilised. But when Salman Rushdie watched night fall in Adelaide, it was not a soft velvet cloak of harmony that he saw descend on this city.”
― Susan Mitchell

“Like John Brenda's Gothic evocation of Savannah in his book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the city of Adelaide, with its dramatic backdrop of verdant hills against the flat city landscape, its iconic festival scene and reputation as a food and wine paradise, hid an uglier face. Beneath the veneer of genteel respectability, parts of its society crawled with human vermin.”
― Debi Marshall, Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders