A Room Full of Bones Quotes

“Kate is now walking. She started at ten months, which is early according to the books. And while Ruth was proud of her daughter for reaching this milestone ahead of time (walking at ten months = first class honours degree from Cambridge), she can’t help thinking that it was easier when she could carry her everywhere.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“She doesn’t place the rights of animals above those of humans but she does, undoubtedly, prefer her cats to many humans.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“Cool. Can I come over? Phil’s got the flu and he’s being such a man about it.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“things”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“Really, religion is so strange—virgin births, the devil disguised as a snake, bread turning into flesh—if you believe all that you can believe anything. And maybe that’s the attraction.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“Ruth has, that morning, opened the fifteenth window on Kate’s advent calendar. She ate the chocolate herself to save Kate’s teeth. What a good mother.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“Judy, who didn’t meet him on her previous visit, is surprised how handsome he is. He looks just like the hero in some Regency romance, an effect heightened by his rather long black hair and by his slightly distracted manner. Clough just thinks that he looks like a tosser.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“King’s Lynn and heads into Norwich.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“King’s Lynn airport,”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“The King’s Lynn police station is in an old Victorian house.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“I still don’t really feel like a mother, one of those women who can do it all. You know, have babies, bake cakes, make potato prints.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“It was the British, not the Native Americans, who were the first to scalp their victims—and then keep the skin as a souvenir.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“Ruth tiptoes out of the room, Kate starts to wail. Let her cry, say the books, but Ruth can’t bear to.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“She hasn’t slept, kept going all afternoon, so you might be lucky tonight,’ she says. There was a time when Ruth wouldn’t have understood this sentence.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“Well, love is always a good motive for murder.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“The desk is covered with paper, which irritates Nelson whose desk at King’s Lynn Police Station is famously clear apart from his ever-present To Do List.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“Nelson takes a crisp from a bowl as he passes. He’s meant to be on a diet but murder always makes him hungry.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones

“single shoe, a brown suede slipon, about a foot away from the coffin. Nelson stares at it dispassionately. Typical arty shoes. Real men—real Northern men—always wear lace-ups.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones