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Busman's Honeymoon

Name: Busman's Honeymoon
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers

Busman's Honeymoon is a 1937 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her eleventh and last featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and her fourth and last to feature Harriet Vane.

“She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.”

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“But that's men all over… Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.”

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“We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.”

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“How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.”

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“For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it… We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.”

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“And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you — I am at rest with you — I have come home. - Lord Peter Wimsey to Harriet Vane, now his wife”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Busman's Honeymoon

Busman's Honeymoon (1937)

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