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The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9) QUOTES

The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9) QUOTES

1 " This bleak housing-scheme, designed by sadists who’d never had to live anywhere near it, had a heart which had shrivelled but refused to stop pumping. "

― Ian Rankin , The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9)

2 " Strip the veneer, and the world had moved only a couple of steps from the cave. "

― Ian Rankin , The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9)

3 " boffins "

― Ian Rankin , The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9)

4 " When we stop believing in God, we don’t suddenly believe in “nothing” … we believe anything. "

― Ian Rankin , The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9)

5 " Obsession came easy—especially to men—because it was a cheap way of achieving control, albeit control over something practically worthless. "

― Ian Rankin , The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9)

6 " But you used to know a good thing when you saw it.

Trouble is, that’s never what I see when I look in the mirror.

What do you see? He looked at her.

Sometimes I don’t see anything at all. "

― Ian Rankin , The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9)