A Shadowed Livery Quotes

“His clothes were poor quality, though his shirt collar was clean and well pressed. The single exception to this was his shoes. My mother once told me to always buy good shoes and a good bed, because if you’re not in one you’re in the other.”
― Charlie Garratt, A Shadowed Livery

“had said he would be: propping up the bar of the Rose and Crown, surrounded by like-minded philanthropists supporting the brewery.”
― Charlie Garratt, A Shadowed Livery

“I suppose we always have Mr Jervis as well. After all, the envelope was found in his cupboard and he has no satisfactory explanation about how it got there. I know those Victorian melodramas always have the butler doing the dirty deed, but it would be nice and tidy if this time he actually had!”
― Charlie Garratt, A Shadowed Livery

“Birmingham’s sweatshops supply caps to factory workers in Lancashire and plus-fours to gentleman anglers on the River Tweed, hats to titled ladies and waistcoats to farm labourers. An odd kind of equality in an unequal world.”
― Charlie Garratt, A Shadowed Livery