The Blue Last Quotes

“After all this time without a smoke he would have lit up a cat.”
― Martha Grimes, The Blue Last

“What lay beneath this calm exterior was desolation. It was an emotion no kid should have to feel—not Benny, not Gemma, not himself back then. Yet he wondered if it wasn’t the legacy of childhood. At some point in the game, you would come to it, no matter how you were raised, no matter if you had a big family around you, desolation was inevitable, it ran beneath everything, the always-available unbearably adult emotion that clung to one’s still-breathing body like drowned clothes.”
― Martha Grimes, The Blue Last

“Steptoe continued: “Yes, I had a very tasty dish of flageolet”
― Martha Grimes, The Blue Last