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141 " Finding God seemed to mean that her parents lost touch with everything else. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
142 " Judy remembers Selina Spencer talking about ‘the oldies club’ but Bryan doesn’t look as if he’s near retirement age. He’s a small man, thin and tanned with hair that’s still more brown than grey. He tells Judy that he’s fifty-five. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Night Hawks
143 " The Magic Gang was led by the famous magician Jasper Maskelyne and for details of his war years I am indebted to a fascinating book called The War Magician by David Fisher (Cassell). "
― Elly Griffiths , The Zig Zag Girl
144 " Cathbad is no fan of the police in general and, sometimes, looking at events around the world, Judy agrees with him. "
145 " The secret of health is not to mourn for the past or worry about the future but to live in the present wisely, "
― Elly Griffiths , The Stone Circle
146 " Everything changes, nothing perishes, "
― Elly Griffiths , The Janus Stone
147 " G.K. Chesterton: ‘I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread. "
148 " 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 "
― Elly Griffiths , The Crossing Places
149 " After lunch Ruth will still experience that old Sunday afternoon dread—a heady mix of undone homework and uniform drying by the fire, cosy and sad at the same time. She’ll get the Dread even though she doesn’t have to go to work tomorrow. Summer School is over and the holidays have officially started. But as soon as the Sunday evening programmes come on the television—costume dramas, antiques and the countryside—the Dread will descend. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Outcast Dead
150 " The TV was off and I could see a book face down on the coffee table. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. I thought of Ella Elphick, sitting in the dark with her herbal tea. Someone really should teach these women about Netflix. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)
151 " Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale, Told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Woman in Blue
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― Elly Griffiths , The Ghost Fields
153 " Rose, lived on, polishing her silver and ironing her tablecloths as if preparing for a banquet that never quite materialised. "
― Elly Griffiths , Zig Zag Girl / Smoke and Mirrors / The Blood Card
154 " The first thing,’ I said, ‘is tea. Georgia, can you put the kettle on? Second thing, plan of attack.’ I got out my notebook. ‘When did you last see Herbert? "
155 " And, of course, it was me that fell in love with Herbert. Oh, Georgie loves him. She takes him for walks and endows him with all sorts of anthropomorphic emotions. ‘Herbert feels shy around other dogs. It’s because he’s an only child.’ But I’m the one who dotes on him, who tells him my troubles and lets him sleep on—and often in—my bed. I love him so much that sometimes, when I look at him, I’m quite surprised to see that he’s covered in hair. "
156 " It turns out that, if there’s one thing women priests love more than cocktails, it’s cats. "
157 " dead,’ says Ted. There’s a service of this name every year, to remember the bodies buried in unmarked graves. "
158 " History is written by the victors, "
― Elly Griffiths , The Dark Angel
159 " When he gets back to the station, Nelson laboriously Googles ‘the twitch upon the thread’ and comes up with a quotation from G.K. Chesterton: ‘I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.’ ‘Bollocks,’ says Nelson, switching off the computer. "
160 " infallibility. "