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1 " You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it. "
― Elly Griffiths , The Janus Stone
2 " Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit, everything changes, nothing perishes, "
3 " We tend to think of the Romans as so civilised, he’d said, so outraged by the barbaric Iron Age practices but there is plenty of evidence of Roman punishment burials, ritual killing and even infanticide. A boy’s skull found in St Albans about ten years ago, for example, showed that its owner had been battered to death and then decapitated. At Springfield in Kent foundation sacrifices of paired babies had been found at all four corners of a Roman temple. "
4 " 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. "
5 " Ah, DCI Nelson. He’s a fine man, I think. A man with morals. "
6 " 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. "
7 " A fan! According to him Father Hennessey is a combination of Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela and Winnie-thebloody-Pooh. "
8 " We think they’re walls,’ replies Max, his face lighting up in the way that archaeologists have when they are about to bore the pants off you. "
9 " Everything changes, nothing perishes, "
10 " 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. "
11 " 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. "
12 " infallibility. "
