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161 " He was a recluse, the old-fashioned sort with a housekeeper and a full staff. I’m not sure I would leave the house myself if I had someone to cook and clean for me, to iron the Times and place it on a tray with my morning infusion. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)
162 " It was a summer’s evening, still half light at ten o’clock, a liminal zone between day and night, a deceitful, untrustworthy time. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Lantern Men
163 " The lantern men of the marshes? Of course I have. They lead unwary travellers to their deaths. They’re linked to will-o’-the-wisps, spirits who are shut out of heaven and hell. Some say that the original was a blacksmith called Will who was so evil that he was condemned to walk the earth for ever, never ascending to heaven or descending to hell. The devil gave him a single coal from hell to keep him warm and he carried it in a pumpkin. That’s where jack-o’-lanterns come from. You know, the lighted pumpkins that children make on Halloween. "
164 " That seems very unfair,’ says Ruth. ‘There’s nothing fair about this life or the next,’ says Janet. She’s another lapsed Catholic, Ruth remembers. Like Nelson. And Cathbad too, come to think of it. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)