Thea

“Mma Ramotswe read the remainder of the letter, which as far as she could make out was meaningless jargon which the attorney had been taught at law school. They were impossible, these people; they had a few years of lectures at the University of Botswanna and they set themselves up as expertes on everything. What did they know of life? All they knew was how to parrot stock phrases of their profession and to continue to be obstinate until somebody, somewhere, paid up. They won by attrition in most cases, but they themselves concluded it was skill. Few of them would survive in her profession, which required tact and perspicacity.”
― Alexander McCall Smith

“Ian is sure this display will blow over, but he hopes the police show up soon. With the amount of tax dollars he hypothetically pays, it's really not too much to ask.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“That's when Ibrahim joined us and suggested that DCI might try plates, and Donna said that was something she would pay to see. Ian Venham didn't want to join in the fun, and told Donna and DCI Hudson that he paid their wages. Donna said in that case could she ask him about a pay rise, and that's when Ventham started shouting the odds about this, that, and the other. People without a sense of humor will never forgive you for being funny. But that's an aside.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“In this confusing state of affairs when each fact is immediately contrasted with a counter-fact and everyone is branded a liar, when the word truth can be used only in apology and within quotation marks, it seems that the only object that can claim total honesty is fiction itself.”
― Rutu Modan, Tunnels