The Beaufort Scales Cozy Mysteries (with Dragons) Collection Quotes

“Tea and baked goods feature heavily in the majority of my stories, not just because they suit the life of the W.I., but because food is so often much more than fuel. It’s a way of taking care of ourselves, of creating bonds and memories and friendships. It’s a language we all speak, a common ground between everyone. Even dragons.”
― Kim M. Watt, The Beaufort Scales Cozy Mysteries (with Dragons) Collection: Tea, murder, & magic in the Yorkshire Dales (Books 1 - 4)

“being scared of anything new or different – that’s not living. That’s existing”
― Kim M. Watt, The Beaufort Scales Cozy Mysteries (with Dragons) Collection: Tea, murder, & magic in the Yorkshire Dales (Books 1 - 4)

“We can survive in fear or we can thrive in courage,”
― Kim M. Watt, The Beaufort Scales Cozy Mysteries (with Dragons) Collection: Tea, murder, & magic in the Yorkshire Dales (Books 1 - 4)

“Miriam thought that they might not be that silly, but they might be that stubborn, which was quite often very much the same”
― Kim M. Watt, The Beaufort Scales Cozy Mysteries (with Dragons) Collection: Tea, murder, & magic in the Yorkshire Dales (Books 1 - 4)

“Any suggestions, then, on what two ladies of a certain age were doing driving a cat around the Dales at 8 p.m. on a cold December night?”
― Kim M. Watt, The Beaufort Scales Cozy Mysteries (with Dragons) Collection: Tea, murder, & magic in the Yorkshire Dales (Books 1 - 4)

“He is good at it,” Mortimer said. “Just more good will to all and less death head stares on the details, I think.” He paused. “Was there a sea serpent fighting a unicorn skeleton on that?” Amelia snorted. “So you didn’t spot the zombie centaurs trampling the pixies? Ugh. He’ll grow out of it. I hope.”
― Kim M. Watt, The Beaufort Scales Cozy Mysteries (with Dragons) Collection: Tea, murder, & magic in the Yorkshire Dales (Books 1 - 4)

“he wasn’t quite sure what the High Lord was thinking of, calling a full Furnace of dragons.”
― Kim M. Watt, The Beaufort Scales Cozy Mysteries (with Dragons) Collection: Tea, murder, & magic in the Yorkshire Dales (Books 1 - 4)

“I like coffee. Coffee is how I get through the day without arresting everyone I meet.” Not entirely an exaggeration. She’d tried to switch to alternating decaf and full-power once in her early days with the police, and had nearly punched her partner for chewing his gum too loudly. She worked best when caffeinated.”
― Kim M. Watt, The Beaufort Scales Cozy Mysteries (with Dragons) Collection: Tea, murder, & magic in the Yorkshire Dales (Books 1 - 4)

“That was a much bigger and more difficult thing than people realised, he thought. To be alright.”
― Kim M. Watt, The Beaufort Scales Cozy Mysteries (with Dragons) Collection: Tea, murder, & magic in the Yorkshire Dales (Books 1 - 4)

“She was one cat allergy away from being the village’s designated eccentric as it was.”
― Kim M. Watt, The Beaufort Scales Cozy Mysteries (with Dragons) Collection: Tea, murder, & magic in the Yorkshire Dales (Books 1 - 4)

“there was a duckpond on the village green across from the hall that no one paddled in, partly because it was rumoured to be bottomless, but mostly because it was home to two permanently enraged geese.”
― Kim M. Watt, The Beaufort Scales Cozy Mysteries (with Dragons) Collection: Tea, murder, & magic in the Yorkshire Dales (Books 1 - 4)