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“This was the problem with using previously conceived characters in a new book. You sometimes forgot important details about them. Like their wives, with whom they had a superbly adventurous courtship and an action-packed marriage, most likely in more ways than one. Caroline watched in despair as the last chance of a love triangle disappeared over the horizon—probably sailing off in the trading ship she’d just remembered Elinor owned—and tried not to sigh.”
― Jill Bearup, Just Stab Me Now

“Goodness is always contextual.”
― Rachel Hochhauser, Lady Tremaine

“It's a lot of work," muttered Mel, harbinger of doom.
"Yes, it is," said Nicola, resisting the temptation to add 'because someone's been murdered, dickhead.”
― Chris Chibnall, Death at the White Hart

“Caroline Lindley,’ said Robin, not bothering to open his eyes, ‘you are talking to a character you made up in your own head. If there are terrible euphemisms going on, you only have yourself to blame.”
― Jill Bearup, Just Stab Me Now