The Glass Room Quotes

“In theory Vera liked strong women; in practice they often irritated her.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“We’d talked about it. About the jealousy that drove Othello to madness.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“Then the class moved on,’ Vera said, ‘to the Revenge Tragedies. Webster. The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil. Very gory. Makes today’s violence on telly look restrained.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“Let folk into your life and they started making demands. She hated people making demands.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“Deep down, everyone loved a murder almost as much as she did. They loved the drama of it, the frisson of fear, the exhilaration of still being alive.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“She didn’t come across psychopaths very often. It occurred to her that there might be a greater proportion of psychopaths in Parliament than in prison.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“Englishliterature”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“stressrelated”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“Like an animal sniffing for danger. A meerkat in the desert.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“conkers,”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“Joanna despised money as common, vulgar, and thought an obsession with money displayed the worst possible taste. What had she called greed? The meanest of vices.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“Perhaps the make-up and the sophisticated clothes were protection. Everyone had their own way of facing a hostile world.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“She’d expected a police presence. Vera Stanhope, big and unmovable, and Joe Ashworth, and perhaps the sharp young woman who’d pretended to befriend her the night Miranda was killed.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“A young woman still in her twenties, but confident and loud. Big-busted and wide-hipped, dressed in a black frock that hid most of the bulges. Vera didn’t know much about clothes, but thought that sort of magic wouldn’t come cheap. She could do with something similar herself, but would probably shrink it the first time she washed it.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“He was a large man, the size and shape of a bear. ‘Lenny Thomas, one of the students.’ He held out a hand. ‘Is that big woman your boss, then?”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“Had the fat woman sent him to get information?”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“That fat one, Inspector Stanhope. She wants us to fix a date for Miranda Barton’s memorial celebration. It was her idea in the first place – a party to launch the book and remember all the good work Miranda did to encourage new writers.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“She saw herself in Hector’s house, too fat and unfit to get out, watching daytime telly and drinking beer for breakfast. Then the hippy-dippy neighbours would be her only link to the outside world. Maybe after all she had more of a vested interest in Joanna’s innocence than anyone realized.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“The fat detective appeared suddenly at lunchtime. She was there with the good-looking sidekick, ladling soup into her bowl, as if she hadn’t eaten in weeks, chopping off thick slices of newly baked bread and spreading it with butter.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“Nina had expected the appearance of the fat female detective of the evening before, but there was no sign of anyone in plain clothes.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“Vera thought for a moment that she felt like a very fat Alice in a strange Wonderland.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“Because I enjoy happy endings and want to bring the couple together again, like I’m some great fat Cupid in wellies. Because it would be bloody inconvenient living here without them next door.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“fitted coat reaching almost to the ground.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“They were flawed and cruel, but there was no intent to kill. Not within the meaning of the law. And the law’s all we have to hold things together.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“But I’ve come to realize writing’s not a noble calling. Like you said, it’s all about marketing, isn’t it?”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“It occurred to her that there might be a greater proportion of psychopaths in Parliament than in prison.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“There hadn’t even been the casual bad language she used herself to show that she was tired or cross. But still he’d shocked them because his anger was deep and real. They’d spent a week carefully putting words together, but his rage had a greater effect than any of their stories.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“He had a chip on his shoulder about anybody with a posh voice and a fancy degree.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“we all have secrets. We’ve all done things of which we’re ashamed.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room

“The shock of waking suddenly had made her muscles tense and she’d never been any good at relaxing.”
― Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room