Jane

“It’s a rule that people you greatly dislike can do the most banal things and drive you as mad as if they were behaving in egregiously hostile ways,”
― Suzy Krause, I Think We've Been Here Before

“Love was only a synonym for sex; loyalty to anything was regarded as a joke; kindness, a weakness. They had no standards—nothing except an undisciplined gratification of their emotions of the moment.”
― Gerald Verner, The Detective Budd Classic Mysteries Books 11-19

“them eternal rest, O Lord, and may light perpetual shine upon them!”
― John Gano, The Complete Detective Proby Series

“Psychologists have stated that the human brain is incapable of holding two troubles at the same time and giving an equal amount of attention to each. The greater worry will invariably overcome the lesser,”
― Gerald Verner, Mr. Budd Novelettes Stories of Crime and Detection Volume One (contains Sinister House and M r K): Vintage Crime Library