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The French for Murder (A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery, #10) The French for Murder by Verity Bright
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“One need never be alone if one chooses not to be. It is merely a matter of re-adjusting one's definitions”
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“I suppose some people want money as recognition as to their worth, or their art's worth. Some want it just so they can eat. And some care nothing for money, but just want fame and adulation”
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“You do not deserve to have art because you care nothing for its value. All that burns inside you is the love of money! And so you think to insult the creator and pay nothing for a great work!”
Verity Bright, The French for Murder
“I know, m'lady. We all want Mr Clifford back where he belongs. But there was nothing achieved on an empty stomach what couldn't have been done twice as well and in half the time as on a full one”
Verity Bright, The French for Murder
“gougère”
Verity Bright, The French for Murder
“We've been faced with tricky conundrums when caught up in these things before, but for some reason, I can't make sense of my thoughts this time. I keep running over my conversations with the suspects. But they're as muddled with the additional information you've unearthed and everything Damboise has drip fed us as if I'd dropped the whole lot in Blendine the Blender. Honestly, Clifford, my brain is as thick as a raspberry souffle, but greatly less enjoyable”
Verity Bright, The French for Murder
“The greatest lesson is in learning one need never be at the mercy of one's situation”
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“Again, I say to you that I am happy he is no longer in my jail. But" - he held up his pencil - "with the murders you solved before, you understand one always suspects the one who finds the body, non?”
Verity Bright, The French for Murder