Quotes from Thrones, Dominations (Raquel)
Dorothy Sayers is one of my favorite mystery writers–mostly because of her characters. When I found out that someone had finished one of her unfinished manuscripts I was torn between “Yay, now I can find out what happened to Peter and Harriet and Bunter!” and “Oh, dear. I hope they didn’t ruin it.”. With some trepidation I began to read. The beginning was good, but of course that was what Sayers actually wrote. Then some alarm in my head told me the style had changed ever so slightly. I wasn’t sure though, so I kept reading. I got to the end of the book and I still wasn’t sure. Overall, parts of the book were clearly an attempt to fake Sayers’ style, but it was a very good fake and I enjoyed it immensely. I also found some quotable lines just begging to be posted on a blog. 
This one should be required reading for all Christian novelists–
Peter to Harriet: “I suppose clever people can get their visions of justice from Dostoyevsky, but there aren’t enough of them to make a climate of opinion. Ordinary people in large numbers read what you write…. If they thought they were being preached at they would stop up their ears. If they thought you were bent on improving their minds they would probably never pick up a book. But you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world we should all try to live in.”
This one because Claude sounds like me; I love writing dialogue–
Harriet to Peter on an unlikely alibi: “You know, Peter, Claude is rather wet, but he’s not stupid. Furthermore, he is a playwright.” “So if he were to invent an entire scene…” “It would hang together properly. It would be more believable than life. And it would have some dialogue in it; he likes dialogue.”
This one because Harriet doesn’t sound like me–
Peter to Harriet: “…you are unmasked all the time. You face the world as what you are, come what will. It is that which made me love you at first sight all these years since. It is that which I admire in you, and which I cannot manage for myself…You have unmasked me,” he said, “and loved me all the same.”