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“I decide not to paraphrase Poirot’s thoughts on fish and chips, that ‘when it is cold and dark and there is nothing else to eat, it is passable’.”
― Lena Jones, The Secret Key

“Hang on …’ Liam says. ‘Aren’t there only thirty-two pods? I read about it – thirty-two pods for the thirty-two boroughs of London.’ ‘Yeah, but there’s no number thirteen. So there’s a number thirty-three to make up for the missing pod,’ I say.”
― Lena Jones, The Secret Key

“This is the twelfth –’ the headmaster glances up from his notes – ‘no, let me correct that – the thirteenth time you’ve been in trouble this term, Agatha.”
― Lena Jones, The Secret Key

“You’ve been gazing at that painting for at least ten minutes.’ Liam appears at my side, head tilted in front of Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. It’s a Tuesday in November, and we’re in the National Gallery on a school trip. ‘You’d think it had one of those hidden pictures in it, the way you’ve been staring at it,’ he continues. ‘You know – the sort you can only see if you look at it for long enough?”
― Lena Jones, The Silver Serpent