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41 " A people who elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur #2)
42 " Once you have had a child, can you ever go back to being the person you were? "
― Elly Griffiths , The Crossing Places
43 " Look which way the bones lie. The position tells you everything. In Christian burials, bodies are usually buried facing east, supposedly towards heaven. Sometimes priests and religious leaders are buried facing west, so that they can rise facing their people. Facing downwards, you are looking at something else altogether. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Dark Angel
44 " Major Karl von Kronig,”’ he reads. ‘“Oberstleutnant Stefan Fenstermacher, Obergefreiter Lutz Gerber, Gefreiter Manfred Hahn, Gefreiter Reiner Brauer, Panzerfunker Gerhard Meister . . .” Bloody hell. No wonder they didn’t win the war with names like that. Take them a year and a half to do the roll call. What the hell’s “panzerfunker” when it’s at home? "
― Elly Griffiths , The House at Sea's End
45 " How can women like Shona and Michelle keep them draped all day? Ruth’s scarves either fall in her coffee or try to strangle her. "
46 " Ruth enjoys teaching summer school. The students are always keen, often they are older people who have always dreamt of being archaeologists, merchant bankers inspired by Time Team, old ladies with a surprisingly detailed knowledge of Bronze Age burial customs. There are usually lots of foreigners too, because the university needs the money: Americans with complicated dietary needs, earnest Chinese students, casually elegant Italians. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Outcast Dead
47 " She suppresses the ignoble thought that it’s hard to see what two complex, intelligent men can see in Michelle. She must have hidden depths, that’s all. Ruth sometimes suspects that she, herself, has hidden shallows. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Woman in Blue
48 " We tend to think of the Romans as so civilised, he’d said, so outraged by the barbaric Iron Age practices but there is plenty of evidence of Roman punishment burials, ritual killing and even infanticide. A boy’s skull found in St Albans about ten years ago, for example, showed that its owner had been battered to death and then decapitated. At Springfield in Kent foundation sacrifices of paired babies had been found at all four corners of a Roman temple. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Janus Stone
49 " We’ll have to see if CSI picked up anything from the scene,’ says Nelson. ‘Are they finished?’ ‘Yes,’ says Tanya. ‘Shall I liaise with them?’ Tanya loves liaising, it sounds so much more important than keeping in touch. ‘If "
― Elly Griffiths , The Chalk Pit
50 " But the partner usually does know, thinks Tim. Even if they don’t know what they know. "
51 " The landscape itself is important. This is a liminal zone, between land and water, sea and sky . . . "
― Elly Griffiths , The Stone Circle
52 " Cool. Can I come over? Phil’s got the flu and he’s being such a man about it. "
― Elly Griffiths , A Room Full of Bones
53 " King’s Lynn airport, "
54 " King’s Lynn and heads into Norwich. "
55 " she’s very good at disappearing into the background. All old people are. "
56 " She hates ringing up and saying, in that special wheedling voice, ‘Can I ask . . . would you mind . . . you’ve saved my life . . . you’re a star.’ She’d rather cut the crap and do the thing herself but, as she’s finding out, being a working mother means asking for favours. "
57 " He was almost sick when Chaz was telling us about the piggies’ eating habits.’ ‘They eat us,’ says Clough thickly, ‘I eat them. It’s only justice.’ ‘Is "
― Elly Griffiths , The Ghost Fields
58 " Never trust a man who flies the Union Jack. "
59 " Don’t the Scriptures also tell you to ‘stay awake’ and ‘be ready’? "
60 " I took custody of it’ sounds a lot better than ‘I stole it’. It never ceases to amaze him, the way people find comfortable language for uncomfortable actions. "