Anne

“The muffins were for Carol, the woman Henry had left her for. Naturally, Carol was younger. Julie knew only one man who'd betrayed his marriage for a woman older than his wife, and it was overstating it to say she knew Prince Charles.”
― Stephen McCauley, My Ex-Life

“New York,” said King, sententiously, “is a huge village with no town pump, no general store with cracker boxes, no sewing circle. People don’t know their neighbors, so they can’t hang over the back fence and gossip. But there’s a human craving for gossip that has to be satisfied, somehow.”
― Lawrence Saunders, Columnist Murder

“Pretty much everything out here seemed designed to kill an Englishman: the food, the insects, the weather. It was as though India itself were reacting to our presence as one’s immune defences react to invasion by a foreign body.”
― Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man

“Well, now listen, Lafe, I want you to do something for me. I want you to bring it up here to the Sharon place right away... What?... Ain’t legal?... Listen, Lafe, I’m the sheriff and murder’s been done, and I can’t wait to get no court orders, and if you don’t get it up here inside half an hour, I’ll arrest you for maintaining a still on account of that gallon of home brew whiskey you give me for Christmas… Yes... All right, and get a move on you.”
― H Ashbrook