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Elly Griffiths QUOTES

1 " Hell is empty and all the devils are here. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

2 " You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Janus Stone

3 " You need a break, a complete rest, recharge your batteries.' Recharge your batteries. What the hell does that mean? Nelson prides himself on not needing batteries. He's an old-fashioned, wind-up model. "

― Elly Griffiths , A Dying Fall

4 " There's a pleasure being mad that only the madman knows. "

― Elly Griffiths , The House at Sea's End

5 " He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Woman in Blue

6 " When she bought the cats her mother asked her straight out if they were 'baby substitutes'. 'No,' Ruth had answered, straight-faced. 'They're kittens. If I had a baby it would be a cat substitute. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Crossing Places

7 " Peter is suffering from an attack of nostalgia, she knows the symptoms. She mustn't join in otherwise she'll be swept away too, drowning in a quicksand of the past. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Crossing Places

8 " Why are Georgette Heyer's covers so naff? When you think of all the exciting things that happen - abductions, false identities, wild horseback chases - the front of the book nearly always shows a woman in a ballgown, simpering sweetly up at a man. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

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― Elly Griffiths , The Ghost Fields

10 " Clough distrusts new people on principle, if they are men and graduates, fitter and better-looking than him, his suspicions hardens into open hostility. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Outcast Dead

11 " Perhaps it is just that she learnt the value of the maternal cliché, the love that is always the same no matter how many years pass and burns no less strongly by being expressed in time-worn phrases. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Crossing Places

12 " But for Ruth, that moment when she held Lucy in her arms was a turning point. She knew then that she would do anything to protect Lucy. She knew then what it is to be a mother. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Crossing Places

13 " This is one of the worst things about being a working mother. Oh, the work’s all right. You can make arrangements for the work. It’s all the other stuff. The drinks after work, the leaving dos, the Friday nights when someone suggests a curry. All the times, in fact, when the important bonding gets done. Ruth has to miss all that, and she’s lost count of the times when she’s been the last to hear about a dig because ‘we discussed it last night in the pub.’ Phil is a great one for networking, he’s always skulking off with a few cronies to plot over pasta but, then again, Phil is only a working father. Having children doesn’t seem to impinge on his professional life at all. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Outcast Dead

14 " Nelson is glad to see a handler and her dog coming towards him. The recognises the woman as Jan Adams, famous in Norfolk for having won several medals for bravery. Her dog, a beautiful long-haired German Shepherd is a bit of a celebrity too. What was his name again?
"Barney" says Jan in answer to his question. "What's going on?"
Nelson explains about the attack. Barney looks at him, head on one side, as if her too might be about to ask a question. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Woman in Blue

15 " Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world. Certainly it’s hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking cute and killing the odd mouse. "

― Elly Griffiths , A Dying Fall

16 " Libraries are the cathedrals of the modern age. All that knowledge, available for anyone to use. It’s quite a subversive thought. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Chalk Pit

17 " Grey’s OK on a man,’ says Mary-Anne. ‘Silver fox and all that.’ Ruth notices that Frank doesn’t seem to mind this description. She also muses that there isn’t a female equivalent to ‘silver fox’. ‘Grey-haired old bat’ doesn’t cover it somehow. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Outcast Dead

18 " She has got her figure back after having the baby, which is a shame—she was rather hoping to get someone else’s. "

― Elly Griffiths , Ruth Galloway: The Early Cases

19 " The past is dead. She, as an archaeologist, knows that better than most. But she knows too that it can be seductive. "

― Elly Griffiths , The Crossing Places

20 " Why is her first reaction to invitations always to think of a way of refusing them? "

― Elly Griffiths , The Crossing Places