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81 " Knowledge is passed along. But at the other end of the knowledge has to be someone with the talent and skill to make something out of it. "
― Elizabeth George , The Edge of Nowhere (Whidbey Island Saga, #1)
82 " Handle the drinking any way you will, but keep clear of damaging Barbara Havers. Because if you do, Isabelle, if you have her transferred out of some sense of pique, then I will do something and you’re not going to like what it is.” He turned to leave, but her next words stopped him. “How dare you threaten me.” He faced her once again and she went on, her voice icy. “Do you know what I could do with that last statement of yours if I chose to? Do you have any idea how much Hillier would love to be rid of you as well? Or do you, perhaps, believe that having a mouldy title attached to your name actually protects you in some way? Are you really thinking that Hillier isn’t looking for a move to make against you because . . . what? He envies you your fine London "
― Elizabeth George , The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley #20)
83 " Poor Oedipus. Had he only had the same. It would have saved him from so much trouble. But, of course, they thought they’d dispatched him, didn’t they? "
84 " memories, "
85 " I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. "
― Elizabeth George , Missing Joseph (Inspector Lynley, #6)
86 " I don’t know,” Missa said doubtfully. "
87 " She smiled with perfect insincerity. "
― Elizabeth George , Well-Schooled in Murder (Inspector Lynley, #3)
88 " Deborah laughed, hugged the dog, allowed herself to be licked on the nose. She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive. "
― Elizabeth George , A Suitable Vengeance (Inspector Lynley, #4)
89 " So once the paedophile message gets sent, someone starts monitoring things, waiting for the right moment for an arrest, and nineteen days later, there’s Uncle Bob. "
90 " Crumbs and salt sequined the front of her pullover. "
91 " helped. Eventually, one of "
― Elizabeth George , A Traitor to Memory (Inspector Lynley, #11)
92 " fading to the colour of sand in the way that blonds do as they move towards grey. "
93 " Miss… "
― Elizabeth George , Payment in Blood (Inspector Lynley, #2)
94 " They merely fell into marriage, which, after all, was the highest form of public validation he could possibly give to a mindless act of sex with a woman he didn’t know. "
― Elizabeth George , For the Sake of Elena (Inspector Lynley, #5)
95 " Their backbones permanently curved like the mark of a question no one had the courage to ask, they shuffled along the pavement, an army of the forgotten and infirm. "
― Elizabeth George , Deception on His Mind (Inspector Lynley, #9)
96 " loathsome Upmans. He thought, ridiculously, that she owed him something. She began to babble, regardless of the fact that he couldn’t understand a word she was saying. He could see that she was trying to explain and that she was asking him to find someone who "
― Elizabeth George , Just One Evil Act (Inspector Lynley, #18)
97 " she ran out of the house. She was "
98 " want to believe Abeo would try another time to invade their safety, but he knew his father. In addition to his unaltered plans for Simisola, there were scores he would want to settle with Tani. "
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99 " Paedophiles lived in a parallel universe to the rest of mankind, and one could do virtually nothing to blast them out of it, so immovably had they placed themselves there through years of rationalisation. "
― Elizabeth George , With No One as Witness (Inspector Lynley, #13)
100 " contumacy "
― Elizabeth George , A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley, #1)