Tim Weaver > Quotes

“He shrugged. 'I know you're the type'
'Type?'
'The type that doesn't let things go”
― Tim Weaver, Never Coming Back

“Derryn took me to a plot she’d chosen for herself in a cemetery in north London. She looked at her grave, up at me, and then smiled. I remember that clearly. A smile shot through with so much pain and fear I wanted to break something. I wanted to hit out until all I felt was numb.”
― Tim Weaver, Chasing the Dead

“Turn the page for an extract from the latest David Raker case,”
― Tim Weaver, Missing

“If she was lying to me, the lie would surface eventually. They always did. Usually families lied out of some misguided belief that it might affect how I did my job; as if my performance was based on how picture-perfect their life was. But the truth was, no life was perfect. Everyone had secrets.
It’s just some were buried deeper than others.”
― Tim Weaver, Vanished

“I’ve worked murders for fifteen years, and some of the places you end up… I don’t know, you’re standing over bodies in these holes, and you can just feel a place is bad.”
― Tim Weaver, The Dead Tracks

“a podcast series called Missing. The aim of the podcast was to answer what seemed like a pretty simple question: is it really possible to disappear?”
― Tim Weaver, Missing

“Over the course of this eight-part podcast series, I’m going to be exploring the world of the missing. It’s a world I felt pretty familiar with, having now written six books on the subject and having occupied the headspace of a man dedicated to locating the disappeared. I’d spent long hours researching real-life cases, speaking to experts in the field and trying to understand the psychology of people who vanish. I thought I knew this area well, but as it turned out I’d only really”
― Tim Weaver, Missing

“that”
― Tim Weaver, Vanished

“Did God send you back?”
― Tim Weaver, Missing Pieces

“The camera pulls into focus. Retired detective Ray Callson is seated in a chair in a nondescript office with pale walls and little in the”
― Tim Weaver, Missing

“presented”
― Tim Weaver, Missing

“seconds, like an old man gasping for”
― Tim Weaver, Missing Pieces

“biometrics, and leading institutes in the study of and search for missing persons. I talked to the Missing Persons Bureau, part of the National Crime Agency, who”
― Tim Weaver, Missing

“be found in the back of this ebook. As you might know, all my thrillers feature David Raker, my series character, and all of them are centred around a missing persons”
― Tim Weaver, Missing

“...but I believed a place could retain a sense of the things that had happened in it, like a residue that never dried out.”
― Tim Weaver, I Am Missing

“...tapped into the heartbeat of this place...”
― Tim Weaver, What Remains

“The person themselves is unlikely to consider themselves missing,”
― Tim Weaver, Missing

“reasons they disappear, how they do it, why they do it, and an aspect that often gets forgotten –”
― Tim Weaver, Missing

“called Missing. The aim of the podcast was to answer what seemed like a pretty simple question: is it really possible to disappear? At the time, I’d written six novels and was working on my seventh, Broken Heart,”
― Tim Weaver, Missing

“In her weakest moments she probably saw her sister’s family dead in a ditch somewhere, inside a car that had never been found. Victims of an accident. Victims of fate, destiny, or whatever she believed in. But I didn’t see any of that. I saw devils and executioners, men who felt nothing for the people they took, and even less for the families left behind. And the thing that frightened me the most was that I didn’t even have to try hard to remember them. I just had to close my eyes.”
― Tim Weaver, Never Coming Back