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101 " She longs to be with her baby, but when she is she’s assailed by a feeling almost of panic. Will she ever escape or will she be trapped in the mother world forever? "
― Elly Griffiths , The House at Sea's End
102 " What on earth had attracted two gorgeous women to this insignificant-looking man? Heterosexuals are a mystery sometimes. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)
103 " The only way to get through it is to get through it. Who said "
104 " Judy, who didn’t meet him on her previous visit, is surprised how handsome he is. He looks just like the hero in some Regency romance, an effect heightened by his rather long black hair and by his slightly distracted manner. Clough just thinks that he looks like a tosser. "
― Elly Griffiths , A Room Full of Bones
105 " Without faith we have no hope of the resurrection and we are for ever reliving Easter Saturday without the dawn rising on the Sabbath. "
106 " Yes. It’s been on the news a lot with that other hole "
― Elly Griffiths , The Chalk Pit
107 " Women write about violence because women experience violence,’ says Becki. This simple truth has the effect of dissolving any remaining laughter in the room. ‘Men hate us. Books are a way of getting our own back. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur #2)
108 " May the gods keep this child perfect and let anything that is negative stay far beyond her world. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
109 " It’s a quote,’ I say. ‘From The Tempest.’ ‘What’s the next line?’ says Harbinder though I’m sure she’s looked it up. ‘Hell is empty,’ I say, ‘and all the devils are here. "
110 " Tony always keeps up a steady flow of chat, unless specifically requested to shut up. It’s like wading in his stream of consciousness. "
111 " Young "
― Elly Griffiths , Smoke and Mirrors
112 " KitKats "
113 " It’s so thin, the line between respectability and chaos. "
114 " The wind seems to take Nelson’s words and throw them into the air. Hastings puts his hand to his ear. "
― Elly Griffiths , Ruth Galloway: The Early Cases
115 " Time is a matter of layers, of strata, each firmly fixed in its own context. You can dig down through the layers but you can’t change the fact that time has passed and new strata have been laid on top. "
― Elly Griffiths , A Dying Fall
116 " Ruth and Nelson sit alone, facing a monstrous fireplace built of stones so vast that they could be rejects from Stonehenge. "
117 " I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood, Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red heath, The red-ribb’d ledges drip with a silent horror of blood, And Echo there, whatever is ask’d her, answers ‘Death.’ –Alfred Tennyson, Maud "
― Elly Griffiths , The Ghost Fields
118 " tell from bones whether someone has had a tattoo?’ ‘Well,’ says Ruth, ‘the ink used in tattoos can migrate to the lymph nodes so, "
― Elly Griffiths , The Dark Angel
119 " What I'm afraid of," says Delilah suddenly in a high, strained voice, "is that one day someone asks me how many children I have and I say four, not five. Because then I'll know that it's over, that she's dead. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Crossing Places
120 " Sometimes,’ says Bob, trying to eat a falafel and balance his glass at the same time. "
― Elly Griffiths , Ruth's First Christmas Tree (Ruth Galloway, #4.5)