115 Quotes by Val McDermid

What it had done, however, was to give him a feeling of power and control that had taken him back to how he used to feel every day.

I've read the stories. Teenagers committing suicide because all they can see ahead of them is shame and disgrace. Kids running away from home because they feel like they've list their future. Well, I'm not having that happen to Torin.

′You're a very unusual man, Mark,′ she'd said.′That's nice of you to say so,′ he said. You have no idea.

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.

Her fight with alcohol had made for contentious exchanges and, if that were possible, even more contentious silences. Tony, empathetic to the point of self-harming, felt the pain of her abstinence as powerfully as anything he'd ever endured personally.

Admittedly, they [(places in novels)] didn't all have such ridiculous names as the ones in the Piddle Valley where her father's group of parishes was centered. It would have been hard to make credible a romantic fiction set in Farleigh Piddle, Middle Piddle, Nether Piddle and Piddle Dummer.

To come up against someone who appeared not to give a damn about exerting petty power almost restored his faith in the public.

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.

The abbey was vampire heaven.