Diane Bean

“If there had been a clock in the room, it would have stopped. Occasionally, there are minutes that get extra seconds. Moments so precious the universe stretches to make additional room for them, and this was one of them. People don't get pauses like these very often. Some people never receive them at all.”
― Stephanie Garber, Excerpt: Finale

“I’m determined never to be a parent. Modern manners and the break-up of the fine old traditions have simply ruined the business. I shall devote my life and fortune to the endowment of research on the best method of producin’ human beings decorously and unobtrusively from eggs. All parental responsibility to devolve upon the incubator.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“I am abso-bally-lutely positive”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness

“Exactly. He is the Most Unlikely Person, and that is why Sherlock Holmes would suspect him at once.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club