Believing the Lie Quotes

“Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.”
― Elizabeth George, Believing the Lie

“Should I anticipate all future conversations with you to take this bent?" Lynley enquired. "Frankly, I've always thought your appeal lay in your complete indifference to personal grooming."

"Those days are past, sir. What c'n I do for you? I reckon this isn't a personal call, made to see if I'm keeping my legs shaved.”
― Elizabeth George, Believing the Lie

“That's all life is, isn't it? Just continuing, going on.”
― Elizabeth George, Believing the Lie

“At the end of the day, no one gets away with anything, I've found.”
― Elizabeth George, Believing the Lie

“So much of what Zed had said to the Scotland Yard detective was bluster, and he knew it. After he dropped her off at her hotel, he didn’t return to Windermere. Instead, he went across the main road through Milnthorpe and made his way to the street that ran east to west along the market square. There was a Spar shop at a junction where another street led off to a grim-looking housing estate of unremittingly grey roughcast, and he parked nearby and went inside. It was cluttered and hot and it suited both his mood and his thoughts”
― Elizabeth George, Believing the Lie

“Female years are like dog years.”
― Elizabeth George, Believing the Lie