“I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.”
“I am not a properly trained historian. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character.”
“I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection.”
“No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detection.""But if no private detective looks like a private detective, how does a private detective know what it is he's supposed not to look like? Seems to me there's a problem there.”
“Given though I am to the occasional notion of counter-survival, I didn't enjoy the idea of a stranger assuming the role of my executioner.It was presumptuous, and I resented it.”
“I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?”