Murder and Mendelssohn Quotes

“This is what 'forever' means, my dear. You don't walk into danger on your own. Not anymore.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn

“I always like cases when the victim's been practically begging to be killed. It means I don't have to be sorry for him.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn

“Amazement could go no further. If Phryne had ridden in on a unicorn he would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Felmington. Well, no, not a unicorn. Not Phryne. A dragon, perhaps. He was sure that she could tame a dragon.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn

“We learn love from the people who love us.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn

“Don’t be silly, Phryne, I’m an—’ ‘Invert?’ said Phryne. ‘Of course you are.’ She said this as though he had just claimed to have blue eyes, as something utterly ordinary. ‘And that means,’ John persisted, ‘that I am a sinner.’ ‘Rubbish,’ said Phryne sharply. ‘No one can help whom they love. I am positive that your God doesn’t care a fig.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn

“Leviticus was a series of rules for a nomadic desert-dwelling culture, where it was sensible not to eat bacteria-enhanced shellfish or terrine of unclean creeping things, where you needed to isolate people who might have leprosy, granted. But consider: if you wish to condemn yourself to hell for Leviticus 18:22, then you need to carry out all the rest of the laws—stoning blasphemers, buying foreign slaves, killing witches, making burnt offerings, and slaying those who twist thread of two types, which”
― Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn

“Cold leek and potato soup. Little pastry boats filled with minced chicken or fish in a white sauce. A large green salad, a tomato and spring onion salad, a cold roast of beef with horseradish or port wine jelly to taste, cold roasted chickens with sage and onion stuffing, with a variety of crisp cold vegetables, each with their proper sauces. Fruit salad. A marmalade-filled roulade with slices of sugared oranges and crème Chantilly which was even now rolling in its damp tea towel as though there were no such things as culinary accidents in the world. Cheeses and fruits and coffee or tea.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn

“Not a sane one amongst the three of us,” murmured John. Phryne laughed and kissed him. “We shall be happy lunatics,” she told him. “Sanity is overrated.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn

“No, really,” said Jack, blushing to show that he wasn’t embarrassed at all. “Do”
― Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn

“The thing about pain,” he went on, “is that it makes you feel rather lonely.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn

“It's always good business practice to eliminate any potential avengers.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn

“ONE As from the pow’r of Sacred Lays The Spheres began to move; And sung the great Creator’s praise”
― Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn