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“What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.”
― Gaudy Night
"Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.”
― Gaudy Night
“I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don’t understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.”
― Unnatural Death
― Unnatural Death
“Even if it is the twilight of the world, before night falls I will sleep in your arms.’ . . .”
― Busman's Honeymoon
― Busman's Honeymoon
“There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.”
― Whose Body?
― Whose Body?
“Lamb said, ‘If you had issues with him, I could have spoken to HR. Arranged an intervention.’ He tapped Moody’s shoulder with his foot. ‘Breaking his neck without going through your line manager, that shit stays on your record.”
― Slow Horses
― Slow Horses
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