Rhys Bowen Quotes

#1. You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place.

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#2. The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary.

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#3. They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

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#4. A man in love does not notice the cut of the dress, but rather a face of a beloved.

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#5. If you're worried about your very life, the last thing you want is small talk.

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#6. but you must make your own way home. You

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#7. Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The Edwin Drood Murders is the perfect mystery for educated, intelligent readers.

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#8. building in there? Coffins. Lots and lots

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#9. Pamela looked at his retreating back with admiration. He represented the backbone of Britain at this moment. A skinny, awkward bookworm, yet determined to keep going for as long as it took to defeat Hitler.

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#10. Is he one of us, or strictly NOCD? (Which, in case you don't know is shorthand for 'Not our class, dear'.)

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#11. It was like smiling at a gargoyle.

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#12. The baroness swept into the room like an avenging black angel, her cape streaming out behind her. If looks could kill, we'd have been sprawled on the carpet.

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#13. All he has is a mangled ankle. I have Americans.

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#14. I know ladies don't sweat, but something was running down my face in great rivulets.

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#15. But flirting does not come easily to someone brought up in a remote castle with tartan wallpaper in the bathrooms, bagpipes at dawn and men who wear kilts.

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#16. He looked up. "Did you just leave them where they were?" Watkins nodded. "I thought we

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#17. her head, although the wind was hardly

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#18. looked up. "Maybe that will jog someone's memory and make them come

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#19. So none of the young men we encountered during our season gave you hot pants for them?
Belinda! Your language.
I've been mingling with Americans. Such fun. So Naughty.

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#20. We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.

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#21. Mummy always had French maids, and Daddy always chased them. It kept their marriage happy.

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#22. Fill in?" she demanded. "For the weekend?" She winced as if each of these words were causing her pain. "I am afraid we do not handle that sort of thing." By that she implied that I had requested a stripper straight from the Casbah. So

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#23. He was the sort of languid and elegant young man one would expect to find at a country house party, playing croquet with Bertie Wooster. Frightfully good fun, but not too many brains.

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#24. In case you haven't noticed, the men get all the plum jobs here, and the women are stuck with the clerical stuff, even though they are often better qualified." "I

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#25. Why is it that there is this misconception that dark equals good. That only applies to chocolate.

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#26. The scent of new-mown grass wafted on the warm breeze, mingled with the smoke of leaves burning on a distant bonfire. The scents and sounds of an English summer Sunday, unchanged for centuries, Ben thought. Polite

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