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Barbara Prescott
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“We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.”
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“Do you know how to pick a lock?'
'Not in the least, I'm afraid.'
'I often wonder what we go to school for,' said Wimsey.”
― Strong Poison
'Not in the least, I'm afraid.'
'I often wonder what we go to school for,' said Wimsey.”
― Strong Poison
“What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living
Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world,
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world,
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
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A group for fans of mysteries written by Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic and Finnish writers.
A group for fans of mysteries written by Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic and Finnish writers.
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