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“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“聽聽 In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian鈥檚 college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets...”
― Sara Shepard, Flawless

“The wish of death had been palpably hanging over this otherwise idyllic paradise for a good many years.

All business and politics is personal in the Philippines.

If it wasn't for the cheap beer and lovely girls one of us would spend an hour in this dump.

They [Jehovah's Witnesses] get some kind of frequent flyer points for each person who signs on.

I'm not lazy. I'm just motivationally challenged.

I'm not fat. I just have lots of stored energy.

You don't get it do you? What people think of you matters more than the reality. Marilyn.

Despite standing firm at the final hurdle Marilyn was always ready to run the race.

After answering the question the woman bent down behind the stand out of sight of all, and crossed herself.

It is amazing what you can learn in prison. Merely through casual conversation Rick had acquired the fundamentals of embezzlement, fraud and armed hold up.

He wondered at the price of honesty in a grey world whose half tones changed faster than the weather.

The banality of truth somehow always surprises the news media before they tart it up.

You've ridden jeepneys in peak hour. Where else can you feel up a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl without even trying? [Ralph Winton on the Philippines finer points]

Life has no bottom. No matter how bad things are or how far one has sunk things can always get worse.

You could call the Oval Office an information rain shadow.

In the Philippines, a whole layer of criminals exists who consider that it is their right to rob you unhindered. If you thwart their wicked desires, to their way of thinking you have stolen from them and are evil.

There's honest and dishonest corruption in this country.

Don't enjoy it too much for it's what we love that usually kills us.

The good guys don't always win wars but the winners always make sure that they go down in history as the good guys.

The Philippines is like a woman. You love her and hate her at the same time.

I never believed in all my born days that ideas of truth and justice were only pretty words to brighten a much darker and more ubiquitous reality.
The girl was experiencing the first flushes of love while Rick was at least feeling the methadone equivalent.

Although selfishness and greed are more ephemeral than the real values of life their effects on the world often outlive their origins.

Miriam's a meteor job. Somewhere out there in space there must be a meteor with her name on it.

Tsismis or rumours grow in this land like tropical weeds.

Surprises are so common here that nothing is surprising.

A crooked leader who can lead is better than a crooked one who can't.

Although I always followed the politics of Hitler I emulate the drinking habits of Churchill.

It [Australia] is the country that does the least with the most.

Rereading the brief lines that told the story in the manner of Fox News reporting the death of a leftist Rick's dark imagination took hold.

Didn't your mother ever tell you never to trust a man who doesn't drink?

She must have been around twenty years old, was tall for a Filipina and possessed long black hair framing her smooth olive face. This specter of loveliness walked with the assurance of the knowingly beautiful. Her crisp and starched white uniform dazzled in the late-afternoon light and highlighted the natural tan of her skin. Everything about her was in perfect order. In short, she was dressed up like a pox doctor鈥檚 clerk. Suddenly, she stopped, turned her head to one side and spat comprehensively into the street. The tiny putrescent puddle contrasted strongly with the studied aplomb of its all-too-recent owner, suggesting all manner of disease and decay.”
― John Richard Spencer

“A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied with a smirk.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“Mom, please don't use 'the happy voice.' It reminds me of the day Tinkles died."
"Who was Tinkles?" Sue asked around a mouthful of pancake.
"My cat. When I was five, Tinkles died choking on a mouse that was a bit ambitious for a kitten to eat."
"It was terribly traumatic for Aurelia because it was the first time she'd experienced loss."聽
"What did you do to help her get through it?"聽
Rosalind smiled at Mother Guardian. "Well, after a good cry, we performed an autopsy."
Aurelia reached for her mother's hand. "I never thanked you for that.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. 鈥楤oy, that鈥檚 ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.”
― Dean Koontz

“Get up you lazy bastard. The Governor wants a word with you,鈥� said a guard. 鈥℉e opened his eyes and smiled. There was another guard standing near the cell door in 鈥╝nticipation of any trouble. The prisoner smiled at him, too. 鈥∟ow what can the Governor want from me? He wondered. His dishevelled form seemed 鈥╥ncapable of coherent thought. 鈥淚t鈥檚 nice of him to remember me,鈥� he said aloud, trying to 鈥╟oncentrate.鈥ㄢ�淪urprising he鈥檚 got any time for a worthless shit like you,鈥� said the first guard. 鈥ㄢ�淚 once used to be a very important person,鈥� the prisoner said feebly.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man鈥檚 head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman鈥檚 silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to 鈥╬ump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind? 鈥≒ossibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“You can鈥檛 set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise.鈥�
[Anna] aimed her defiance at Mary.
鈥淎nd you? What鈥檚 your reason to hate me?鈥�
Caroline spoke quietly. 鈥淲e nearly died 鈥� in the fire in those mountains and at the house when Ravi had a gun pointed at us.鈥� Her eyes were full of tears. 鈥淭he fire you set at The Old Hospital could have killed me as well as Janet and Agnes.鈥�
Anna muttered into the syrupy dregs of her tea. 鈥淔ire, you鈥檙e firing me?鈥�
Mary grimaced. There had been too much fire.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac鈥檚 blood sprout from it.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“The world is full of magic. You鈥檝e just got to learn how to access it.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Ah! You speak Levitan,鈥� the man smiled. 鈥淏ut you鈥檙e not from Levita I think.鈥� Like鈥╩ost Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown鈥檚 tastes. 鈥ㄢ�淣o, I lived there for a while.鈥� 鈥ㄢ�淒id you enjoy your stay?鈥濃�ㄢ�淯p to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.鈥濃�ㄢ�淵es of course. So are the men in Levita,鈥� the man smiled. 鈥淲e used to have a鈥╟leansing programme to ensure a healthy population.鈥濃�ㄢ�淵ou mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the鈥╬opulation.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Just now he was on a mind-blowing adventure and it was rapidly spiralling out of control, and this is what he needed to concentrate his mind on. How could he squeeze Daley to get the book back; that鈥檚 if Daley had it in his possession in the first place? The next few days were going to be crucial.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“You don鈥檛 think he鈥檚 our man?鈥� asked Adam. It occurred to him that Ramsbottom was not exactly forthcoming with information.
鈥淚 didn鈥檛 say that,鈥� Ramsbottom said. 鈥淚n fact he is behaving very cautiously indeed, which makes me feel very suspicious.鈥�
鈥淗e has probably figured out that you are following him,鈥� said Adam. 鈥淥ne can hardly fail to notice you hanging around all the time.鈥�
鈥淭hat may be so,鈥� said Ramsbottom.
鈥淐an鈥檛 you get a disguise or something?鈥� asked Adam. 鈥淪o he does not recognise you.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Do you still distrust me?鈥�
鈥淣o. Take your necklace with you so you can think of me when I鈥檓 not there.鈥濃�˙rown brought the necklace over to her and put it on her neck.鈥ㄢ�淚 think it rather suits me,鈥� she laughed and left.鈥˙rown didn鈥檛 understand what had made him insist she wear the necklace. Maybe it鈥╳as the readiness with which she had made love, or her frequent disappearances lately,鈥╤e was just curious. There was no harm in checking, before he parted with the money.鈥↙ater that evening, before going to sleep he decided to have a look at her location and鈥╤e was in for a surprise. She had not left Central City at all. In fact she was at the same鈥╢riend鈥檚 address as she had been the last time.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Are you really a reporter?鈥� asked Brown.鈥ㄢ�淵ou already asked me that. Come back to Levita, take the pardon.鈥濃�� 鈥淚 doubt I鈥檒l live long enough to get there,鈥� said Brown bitterly.鈥ㄢ�淚 hope you survive. You are a fighter. And we have the antidote for your habit on鈥↙evita. I suggest you take a vacation. There鈥檚 nothing much that鈥檚 going to happen here.鈥濃�╓ith that she left, leaving Brown more confused than ever.鈥℉e was a father, he had a son. And, the Levitians had a cure for his drug-addled body.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives鈥╰hough. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?鈥濃�ㄢ�淵ou insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you鈥╰hink of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be鈥▂ou. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.鈥濃�ㄢ�淵ou mean you don't hate me?鈥� This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him.鈥℉e was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used鈥╰he girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on the form he had filled in for a dating agency. As an airline pilot you could be away just the right amount of time, when you needed a break from your love life, without facing awkward questions from her when you got back.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“I鈥檓 fucking asking you!鈥� The man stood his ground.
From the corner of his eye Adam could see the other man getting up from his chair. It was time to go. Adam head-butted the first man who was blocking his way, and then kneed him in the groin for good measure. As the man doubled up, Adam pushed past him.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Mary鈥檚 hands clenched. She鈥檇 been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue the Scroll鈥檚 Key Keeper? Where were the College鈥檚 thanks for that?”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending 鈥� no, giving 鈥搕hirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Where鈥檚 everybody? I thought you had started production.鈥濃�ㄢ�淭hey鈥檝e got a day off, but don鈥檛 worry you鈥檒l see the machinery is here.鈥濃�˙ut Brown was worried. As they entered the canteen, the lights came on鈥╝utomatically. There was nobody there.鈥ㄢ�淲hat鈥檚 going鈥�...鈥� but he never finished the sentence. Brown felt a sharp pain on the鈥╯ide of his head and everything went black.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“Rachael, I don鈥檛 think this is a very good idea.鈥� Adam tried to protest and break away, but it was too late. She had a good hold on him by now, and he was going nowhere.
鈥淣ot bad for a little man like you,鈥� she said. 鈥淭here seems to be something different about you lately.鈥� Rachael smiled.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“I haven鈥檛 got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,鈥� laughed Adam. 鈥淲e won鈥檛 have to dispose of the body. I鈥檒l get a pan and brush in a minute and flush him down the toilet.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master