Kristi

“No, he’s made a very good point,’ said Bashford provocatively. ‘Women are just vessels, you know.’ ‘That’s very true,’ said Sykes, smiling angelically at him. ‘I myself am a seventeen-thousand-ton Dreadnought class battleship with enough firepower to destroy a medium-sized city.”
― Jodi Taylor, An Argumentation of Historians

“The ability to research properly is founded on apparently endless and apparently idle curiosity.”
― Peter Grainger, The Late Lord Thorpe

“Every time you think you’ve hit bottom when it comes to what the human nose can’t do they take it down another notch.”
― Spencer Quinn, Up on the Woof Top

“The South Koreans are better educated than the English. The Swedish are happier. The Germans are more compassionate. The Azerbaijanis are more literate. Brunei has cleaner air. Latvia has faster broadband. Everywhere has a better climate. And yet for some astonishing reason you still act as if you matter. Why is that, do you suppose? Ah, yes, empire. You lost yours over a century ago. The Americans are only just losing theirs and that’s not going down so well, either.”
― Christopher Fowler, Wild Chamber