1. "We late-lamented, resting here, Are mixed to human jam, And each to each exclaims in fear, ‘I know not which I am!’ —Thomas Hardy, The Levelled Churchyard, 1882"
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Deborah Crombie, To Dwell in Darkness
2. "After a moment, Callery shrugged. We’ll go in, then, the two of us, with Weeping Myrtle here. He nodded towards the café. It’s Moaning Myrtle, Kincaid corrected, feeling a flicker of surprise at Callery’s Harry Potter reference. He didn’t seem the fantasy type. And somehow he couldn’t imagine that this man had kids."
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Deborah Crombie, To Dwell in Darkness
3. "pugnacious."
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Deborah Crombie, To Dwell in Darkness
4. "support, he added, gesturing at his ankle,"
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Deborah Crombie, To Dwell in Darkness
5. "toxic, white phosphorous, and I"
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Deborah Crombie, To Dwell in Darkness
6. "said, before you have your wicked way with me. I’m Tommy Godwin, by the way. So I’d gathered, retorted Gemma, escaping gratefully to the loo. Once safely behind the closed"
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Deborah Crombie, Leave the Grave Green
7. "had changed last Friday night?"
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Deborah Crombie, The Sound of Broken Glass
8. "realized he wasn’t the one"
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Deborah Crombie, Water Like a Stone
9. "Gemma searched for a moment, then gave a laugh"
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Deborah Crombie, Water Like a Stone
10. "to ‘remember’ where he’d seen Annabelle"
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Deborah Crombie, Kissed a Sad Goodbye