Small Bomb at Dimperley Quotes

“No money. As if that were beyond the pale, and yet if there were a single defining characteristic of Vere-Thissetts through the ages, it was that they had had no money -- the difference between his family and Zena being that they kept being given piles of the stuff before letting it slip through their fingers .... generation after generation of waste and misjudgment, bad behaviour and incompetence, forming a list that Alaric recited as reverently as a string of Biblical begats, the family's lack of any worthwhile achievement emblazoned on the coat of arms-- no rampant beasts for the Vere-Thissetts, only a frog ('harmony and peace'), two squirrels and a bend sinister.”
― Lissa Evans, Small Bomb at Dimperley