43 Quotes by Elly Griffiths

You need a break, a complete rest, recharge your batteries.′ Recharge your batteries. What the hell does that mean? Nelson prides himself on not needing batteries. He’s an old-fashioned, wind-up model.

Class is a stronger social adhesive than nationality.

She has got her figure back after having the baby, which is a shame – she was rather hoping to get someone else’s.

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

She suppresses the ignoble thought that it’s hard to see what two complex, intelligent men can see in Michelle. She must have hidden depths, that’s all. Ruth sometimes suspects that she, herself, has hidden shallows.

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

Peter is suffering from an attack of nostalgia, she knows the symptoms. She mustn’t join in otherwise she’ll be swept away too, drowning in a quicksand of the past.

The past is dead. She, as an archaeologist, knows that better than most. But she knows too that it can be seductive.

She’s unmarried but, as she confided early on to Judy, ‘not short of offers’. Nelson often thinks that Jo is not nearly as attractive as she thinks she is but, as with all these things, her insane self-belief rubs off on others, and after a week King’s Lynn police were treating her as if she were Helen of Troy. Her technique is divide and rule.