To Kill A Shocking Bard Quotes

“And he’s the fella that writes those comedy murder mysteries that aren’t selling.’ He flew back across the room and picked up a wodge of papers. ‘He’s just sent me his latest effort. It’s called We Have Lost the Poet. I mean, for goodness sake, who’s gonna want to read a comedy murder mystery about a flaming dead poet? Nobody, that’s who! It’s daft!”
― Paul Mathews, To Kill A Shocking Bard

“Oddness is not a crime. If it were, half the population of England would be under lock and key.”
― Paul Mathews, To Kill A Shocking Bard

“I think you’ll find everybody looks a little shifty before nine o’clock in the morning. The British distrust of early starts goes back centuries and is, I believe, locked into our islander genes.”
― Paul Mathews, To Kill A Shocking Bard

“Troy remembered his girlfriend talking about subtexts but he hadn’t detected any so far. Only snug vests. In fact, never mind subtexts, he was struggling to understand the main text.”
― Paul Mathews, To Kill A Shocking Bard

“When Jean-Paul Sartre wrote ‘Hell is other people’, he’d obviously just dined with work colleagues.”
― Paul Mathews, To Kill A Shocking Bard