Silent Voices Quotes

“we all grieve in our own way.’ ‘Of course.’ And yours is to keep moving: hours spent in airports, drives in trucks on dusty roads, new faces, new places. No attachment.”
― Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices

“I’d been taken in by Danny. He’d impressed me with his talk, his dreams and his plans for the future. He tried the same stuff with Mum, only he couldn’t impress her. She was perfectly pleasant and tactful, but it was obvious to me that she couldn’t stand him.’ ‘That’s why you dumped him?’ ‘I think so. Not because Mum didn’t like him. But because she made me realize that I didn’t like him much either.”
― Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices

“You know how it is when you suddenly see a person through someone else’s eyes?”
― Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices

“she was such a drama queen. Like an eight-year-old in a tutu desperate to show off a new dance.”
― Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices

“What was going on? A demonstration perhaps? The Fat People’s Democratic Front insisting on the right to be unhealthy? This, at least, was how Vera judged their reaction. But she had her clothes on and that gave her a sense of superiority. From here she could see the wrinkled necks and the bingo-wings; she looked down on the untinted roots of their hair.”
― Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices

“Since we found Mrs Lister’s body in the pool.”
― Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices

“Perhaps that was why she drove so fast, because she didn’t want the girl to have the same sort of memories of childhood that she’d been left with: the fear in the pit of the stomach and the longing to be home in a familiar place.”
― Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices

“We’re all selfish bastards at heart, aren’t we?”
― Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices

“But people often had a voyeur’s excitement when they were close to a violent death, as if it conferred a degree of celebrity on them.”
― Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices

“occasional”
― Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices

“was there,”
― Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices

“didn’t have time for small talk.”
― Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices