A Bird in the Hand Quotes

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― Ann Cleeves, A Bird in the Hand

“Twitching is derived from the Wessex phrase ‘twitching like a long dog,’ which Hardy used and which is still common today in rural counties. A long dog is a greyhound. It could be interpreted as ‘straining at the leash,’ perhaps. So a twitcher is a person who is in that state when he hears the news of a bird which he has never seen before, and remains in it until he has ‘ticked it off’—another bird watching term—derived, I suppose, from the habit of placing a mark by the new species in the field guide.”
― Ann Cleeves, A Bird in the Hand

“This was no crossword to be solved by a gentleman in an armchair. Murder was mad and unreasonable and gentlemen had no part in it.”
― Ann Cleeves, A Bird in the Hand

“St. Agnes and he loved the place.”
― Ann Cleeves, A Bird in the Hand