Vipra

“... you sound the sort of person who might be interested in the details of two spies being murdered. I have pictures and everything, and there will be wine, and I know everyone would be thrilled to meet you.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“An area as large as the IVC would not have had a single language, but at least as much variety as the region has today. There would have been standard urban varieties, and a large number of little dialects spoken in the hinterland, differing in their proximity to the standard urban varieties. The most urban people would probably have been the first to adapt to unstoppable change, while the poor, looking away from evidence of decline, would have lingered in their old worlds, preserving the old languages and culture.”
― Peggy Mohan, Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia

“Chris has never enjoyed jazz, never even quite worked out which bit he was supposed to be enjoying, but he does know that people who like jazz seem to enjoy life, and that he needs to pretend to enjoy life a bit more than he does. And what if it's the same as apples? What if pretending to enjoy life is the same as actually enjoying it?”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“He was good at what he did, and that’s why, even now, some people will drive for miles, past an old phone box, past the farm shop and the wooden bus stop, and take the right turn before the bridge, just to speak to an eighty-year-old psychiatrist, long retired.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club