Kim M. Watt > Quotes

“The visitor brought the breath of the rain with them as well, and, under the perfume, the strange dull reek of leather chairs and wool carpets and high, still rooms wrought in brass and dark wood. They smelt of money, in other words.”
― Kim M. Watt, Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries

“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)

“just like people, life was terribly complicated and confusing, and never quite what one expected, or even what one believed it to be. And it could be sharp and painful and raw, but it was also wonderful and beautiful and full of astonishing things, so maybe that was alright. Maybe that was exactly as it should be.”
― Kim M. Watt, A Manor of Life & Death

“sometimes think that the capacity of humans to cope with disaster is directly proportional to the availability of tea. That, or whisky. It depends on the individual.”
― Kim M. Watt, Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries

“It’s quite another to make the leap and trust in physics to catch you. Particularly when you’re a cat, and so have a pretty casual relationship with physics anyway. In fact, physics probably wants to have a stern word with you, likely involving mass, velocity, and force.”
― Kim M. Watt, Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries

“and handed her the tablet.”
― Kim M. Watt, Baking Bad

“the room was choked with a heat that managed to be both dusty and sticky at once.”
― Kim M. Watt, Game of Scones

“speak”
― Kim M. Watt, Bonfire of the Calamities

“a truth”
― Kim M. Watt, Oddly Enough: Tales of the Unordinary, volume one

“Those on the edge of things always see more clearly than those in the centre.”
― Kim M. Watt, Gobbelino London & A Contagion of Zombies

“It was good thing”
― Kim M. Watt, A Manor of Life & Death

“stale energy drink”
― Kim M. Watt, Baking Bad

“all the shop windows glowed with cheerful displays, some of them rather more well done than others. Alice thought the hardware shop with its Nativity scene comprised entirely of power tools was a little odd, whether one believed in such things or not. Although the tiny electric drill in the manger was admittedly quite cute, somehow. Possibly due to the googly eyes on the handle.”
― Kim M. Watt, A Toot Hansell Christmas Cracker

“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)

“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)

“Miriam gasped, knocking her mug and sending tea slopping onto the table.”
― Kim M. Watt, Coming Up Roses

“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)

“Miriam backed away with a squeak”
― Kim M. Watt, A Manor of Life & Death

“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)

“Fancy a cuppa?”
― Kim M. Watt, Coming Up Roses

“crash of thunder?”
― Kim M. Watt, Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries

“I might not have much need for books, but I don’t disregard them, either. You do that at your peril. There’s more than paper and ink in a book. Why else do they drag you in, tear at your heart, rob you of your sleep and demand time and thought, and, sometimes, blood? Only magic things do that. Hungry things.”
― Kim M. Watt, Gobbelino London & A Complication of Unicorns

“Can I come in?”
― Kim M. Watt, Yule Be Sorry

“When did you gain another cat?” “They just keep turning up,” Callum said, finishing his toast and brushing the crumbs off his fingers.”
― Kim M. Watt, Gobbelino London & a Worry of Weres

“unlike him in the number of legs,”
― Kim M. Watt, Gobbelino London & A Contagion of Zombies

“Hoody threw themselves at the wall,”
― Kim M. Watt, Gobbelino London & A Contagion of Zombies

“You read enough, the words get into your blood, and your heart will just plain break if you don’t come back to them.”
― Kim M. Watt, The Gobbelino London Collection

“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)

“Alice shook her head and led the way, hurrying across the gravel to her little Fiat 4x4.”
― Kim M. Watt, A Manor of Life & Death

“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)