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61 " It was the British, not the Native Americans, who were the first to scalp their victims—and then keep the skin as a souvenir. "
― Elly Griffiths , A Room Full of Bones
62 " The things we fear in secret always happen. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Lantern Men
63 " lifeboat. "
― Elly Griffiths , The House at Sea's End
64 " What’s worse, dying of radiation poisoning or being trapped thirty metres underground with a bunch of politicians?’ ‘Someone was telling me about billionaire bunkers the other day. Where the super-rich burrow down to escape nuclear war. Imagine crawling to the surface to find that the only other people to have survived are millionaire arms dealers. Them and the cockroaches. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Chalk Pit
65 " Is this what her future is going to be, hanging round on the outskirts of Nelson’s life with her only reward being the occasional night of (admittedly fantastic) sex? She shouldn’t settle for it. She mustn’t settle for it. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Stone Circle
66 " If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy . . . that is your success. All nature is your congratulation . . . "
― Elly Griffiths , The Ghost Fields
67 " I still don’t really feel like a mother, one of those women who can do it all. You know, have babies, bake cakes, make potato prints. "
68 " That was the trouble with guileless people: they could be very cunning. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Zig Zag Girl
69 " Nelson feels rather proud of this. They may have been here four hundred years, he thinks, but to us they were still foreigners, occupiers, with their fancy, glass-making ways. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Janus Stone
70 " She wouldn’t like the word ‘policewoman’ either, any more than Hilary would like ‘priestess’. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Woman in Blue
71 " There are subterranean communities all over the world, in catacombs, sewers and abandoned metros. The Tunnel People in Las Vegas, the Empire of the Dead in Paris, the Rat Tribe in Beijing. "
72 " Are these real friends, people who would look after your cat or drive you home from hospital, or are they just an amorphous mass, happy enough to leave cute messages (lol!) on your wall but completely removed from your everyday life? How can you have three hundred close friends? "
73 " Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson. ‘To Ruth,’ reads the inscription, ‘with very best wishes from Frank Barker.’ Ruth opens a page at random. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands: They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Outcast Dead
74 " How come, when Elsa sings about letting go and the cold not bothering her, she suddenly gets an hour-glass figure and a plunging neckline? Ruth thinks that both female characters could benefit from wearing anoraks, "
75 " there’s a strength in innocence, but there’s also a strength in being devious. "
76 " Don’t clever people read crime novels?’ asks Edwin, making a list of murder mysteries in his head, starting with Macbeth and including Dickens, Dostoevsky, Charlotte Brontë and Wilkie Collins. He’s a particular fan of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur #2)
77 " Reason is always a kind of brute force, those who appeal to the head rather than the heart . . . are always men of violence.’ She thinks of Justin’s letters, of the attempts to justify his views by twisted reasoning and quotations from scripture. She thinks of Hilary’s own arguments, so measured and confident. Perhaps it’s better just to believe things, as Cathbad does, without attempting to explain them. "
78 " It’s all sleek lines and concealed lighting, unlike her parents’ house where, on top of everything, there’s something. "
79 " has always disliked about evangelicals. The way they talk about God as if he’s God Smith who lives next door. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Dark Angel
80 " Religious people might as well wear little electric chairs around their necks. "