Shane Boyd

“Oh, I never take offense,” says Joyce. “Such an effort.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“The only way anyone can afford to buy a house these days is to have bought it fifteen years ago.”
― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders

“Well, I’ve always wished I’d never met him, so I like to extend the same courtesy to my friends.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“The world,” he would remark to her a few weeks into their acquaintance, “is a terrible place and it was our misfortune to be have been born into it.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies