Unnatural Habits Quotes

“Phryne looked at a large statue of St. Joseph, for whom she had always had an admiration. It can’t have been easy, managing a girl with an inexplicable pregnancy. But he had accepted the word of the Lord and not put her away. Later generations had not been so forgiving.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Unnatural Habits

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants: it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt Speech to the House of Commons, 1783”
― Kerry Greenwood, Unnatural Habits

“Phryne opened her book and sipped her lemonade. Agatha Christie. What a plotter. Phryne wished briefly that the real world was so amenable to being solved. ***”
― Kerry Greenwood, Unnatural Habits

“I am what I am and I have what I have, even when I was scouting for old veggies in the pig bins at the Vic market. And I never wanted anyone’s place or their regard.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Unnatural Habits

“What happens to the ones who will not work and want to lie about all day, discussing important political questions and painting mediocre pictures?’ ‘Oh, you mean men?’ asked”
― Kerry Greenwood, Unnatural Habits

“Jane’s writing looked like an intoxicated inky spider had staggered across the page on the way to the bar for another drink. Which it really didn’t need.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Unnatural Habits

“appeared to have the sense of self-preservation of a chocolate Easter egg in a blast furnace.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Unnatural Habits

“Laws grind the poor And rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith, ‘The Traveller”
― Kerry Greenwood, Unnatural Habits

“Epigraph But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As would make the angels weep. —William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure”
― Kerry Greenwood, Unnatural Habits

“Piracy is a lot of fun; you should try it.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Unnatural Habits

“Her Beretta was holstered in her garter worn high on her thigh, under the shapeless blue dress. She had donned shoes in which she could run. The high heels had done their work and could be presented to the poor, assuming that they wanted to court a broken ankle along with their other problems. Along her forearm, covered by the loose sleeve, her throwing knife was strapped. Phryne, as a helpless victim, was a complete failure.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Unnatural Habits