Here
are two quotes, and a cute word that I’ve just recently found.
The
first quote is from a novel called Hallowe’en
Party, by Agatha Christie. The quote is from a character called Mrs. Butler: she is
talking about children!
“They acquire puppy fat and look like
well-fattened pigs sometimes.”
The
second quote is from the programme, Rosemary
and Thyme; two professional gardeners who also help solve crimes, but
there’s nothing Miss Marple-esque or dithering about them.
This
quote is from an episode called Agua
Cadaver. Rosemary and Laura have gone to Spain to work on the garden of a
married, ex-boyfriend of Rosemary’s who still likes her, and has asked her to
go and live with him in Spain.
Says
Rosemary, to Laura’s question about whether or not she will shack up with him: “He’s got a wife, and I’ve got a life.”
I
love that quote. As I say, these are not your dithering female sleuths, at all.
And
finally, a cute word, which I hadn’t met before, and found in a story called The A.B.C. Murders, again by the
doyenne of the cozy murder genre, Ms. Christie.
Here’s
the word, "snuggery”, and even
better, here’s the quote to give it context.
A
man named Mr. Barnard is inviting detectives, and police into his and his
wife’s “minute bungalow.”
They
introduce themselves to him, and then he says to the group, “Come
into the snuggery…”
If
the word was at all unclear, the narrator, Captain Hastings, gives clarity to it by saying: “..we were ensconced
in the livingroom..”, but it’s so much cuter to say snuggery, rather than
living room with mean little adjectives in front.
