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Quotes from The Poisoner's Ring — Kelley Armstrong

born 1968 Canada

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12 quotes

After all, women feign interest in men all the time to better their positions.

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Yet not everyone reading broadsheets realizes they aren’t accurate reporting, making them the internet news sites of the Victorian era.

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There’s cruel, and then there’s downright evil.

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Ultimately, you are his physician, which is probably why he is about to die.

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“Have you been drinking?” I say.
“Why does everyone ask me that when I am in a good mood?”

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I feel that the more I discuss the future with you, the more discouraged I become.

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To her credit, she is interesting. In the same way as a venomous snake.

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Like so many regulations the Anatomy Act was created to solve one problem and caused another.

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My husband is already dead. He only needs to stop breathing to make it official.

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Victorian flirting doesn’t require much. Flatter him. Laugh at his jokes. Let him ogle my cleavage. Okay, this probably also works in my own time.

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He flips a thruppence my way. I catch it.
“Why thank you, sir. I find I have grown most fond of money.”
“Odd. That seems a common condition among those who do not have it.”

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He was the worst sort of gentry—the sort that mistakes the luck of birth for an actual accomplishment. As if he chose to be born into money and title and had nothing but contempt for those of us lacking the foresight to do the same.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kelley Armstrong (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.