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81 " Nelson gives her a sardonic glance, correctly identifying Catholic Genuflecting Syndrome "
― Elly Griffiths , The House at Sea's End
82 " The secret of health is not to mourn for the past or worry about the future but to live in the present wisely,’ says Star. ‘That’s what Cathbad says. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Stone Circle
83 " It’s quite exhilarating, being annoyed by someone, especially a friend. It’s been a long time since he’s spent so much concentrated time with other people. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur #2)
84 " The police sometimes talk about ‘distantiation’, the theory that it’s easier to shoot than stab because you can be distanced from your victim. Think of drone attacks. I’m sure the operators don’t feel like killers and yet they are. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)
85 " the embers now glowing like tiny dragons. "
86 " And they laugh. Good old Ruth, devoted to her cats, child-substitutes of course, shame she never got married, she’s really very pretty when she smiles. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Crossing Places
87 " 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. "
88 " single shoe, a brown suede slipon, about a foot away from the coffin. Nelson stares at it dispassionately. Typical arty shoes. Real men—real Northern men—always wear lace-ups. "
― Elly Griffiths , A Room Full of Bones
89 " She is puffing on one of those vape things. There’s a sickly sweet smell of mango in the air. It makes Ruth feel rather nostalgic for the days when smokers gathered outside offices for cigarette breaks, companionably coughing their lungs out. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Lantern Men
90 " my brother Kush always wore a leather jacket instead of the blazer and I don’t remember anyone telling him off. Kush was always cool, which was handy for me, because I wasn’t. "
91 " Nelson takes a crisp from a bowl as he passes. He’s meant to be on a diet but murder always makes him hungry. "
92 " Ty on the beach holding a lucky stone—the sort with a hole in the middle, witch stones Miss Hughes says they’re called—up to the light. "
93 " Ah, DCI Nelson. He’s a fine man, I think. A man with morals. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Janus Stone
94 " The desk is covered with paper, which irritates Nelson whose desk at King’s Lynn Police Station is famously clear apart from his ever-present To Do List. "
95 " There’s an underground cathedral in South America, isn’t there?’ says Ruth. ‘I was reading about it recently. Isn’t it in an abandoned salt mine?’ ‘Yes, the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá, "
― Elly Griffiths , The Chalk Pit
96 " We can’t know all the patterns of the great web. We can just hope that it will make sense one day. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Dark Angel
97 " Well, love is always a good motive for murder. "
98 " you wanted to talk to me about SHCH.’ Sacred Heart Children’s Home, Nelson works out silently. He hates acronyms. Whitcliffe, of course, loves them. "
99 " She hasn’t slept, kept going all afternoon, so you might be lucky tonight,’ she says. There was a time when Ruth wouldn’t have understood this sentence. "
100 " Ruth tiptoes out of the room, Kate starts to wail. Let her cry, say the books, but Ruth can’t bear to. "