43 Quotes by Elly Griffiths

Nelson is glad to see a handler and her dog coming towards him. The recognises the woman as Jan Adams, famous in Norfolk for having won several medals for bravery. Her dog, a beautiful long-haired German Shepherd is a bit of a celebrity too. What was his name again?"Barney" says Jan in answer to his question. "What's going on?"Nelson explains about the attack. Barney looks at him, head on one side, as if her too might be about to ask a question.

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.

Does the world really need another long essay on environmental archaeology and freshwater mollusks? Well, it's going to get one, whether it likes it or not.

You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.

Libraries are the cathedrals of the modern age. All that knowledge, available for anyone to use. It’s quite a subversive thought.

Flint jumps onto the table and arranges himself, with geometrical precision, on the exact article that Ruth is reading.

He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one.

When she bought the cats her mother asked her straight out if they were 'baby substitutes'. 'No,' Ruth had answered, straight-faced. 'They're kittens. If I had a baby it would be a cat substitute.

There's a pleasure being mad that only the madman knows.