Raisins and Almonds Quotes

“This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Raisins and Almonds

“The Albion was a spacious pub, built in the days when a public house with any pretensions to gentility had to have fourteen foot ceilings, brass taps and a polished wooden bar you skate down. ... Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if heaven didn't have a well-appointed pub where a man could sit down over a beer for a yarn with the other angels, then he didn't want to go there.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Raisins and Almonds

“His dad had always told him that the red-faced were blusterers, not to be taken seriously. 'But if you see a bloke who's pale and shaking, son,' Bert's father had instructed, 'then run like blazes, because he might flamin' kill you.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Raisins and Almonds

“Look what science did in the war,’ he said soberly. ‘We found new and horrible ways to kill people. I decided that we had to be useful, or there was no excuse for us.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Raisins and Almonds