The Yard Quotes

“Your duty is to society, and the dead have always been a part of society. How we treat the dead says much about us.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“It is more important to use your gifts well than to settle for being content.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“I find that if you're a good student, the teacher hardly matters.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“Kett shook his head. Murderers, thieves, whores and swindlers were all pressed together alongside the rarest of species, the honest citizen. He could spend the entire afternoon studying the crowds at Euston Square and never sort the decent from the damned.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“London is locked in a sort of dance of propriety, and it seems to me that it has led to desperation among certain elements of our society.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“Dr Kingsley was an exception, as he was not officially a member of the Metropolitan Police Force of Scotland Yard. He worked from a lab in the University College Hospital basement and had created his own position as forensic examiner simply because he felt it was necessary. Before he had taken over the police morgue, forensics work had been nearly nonexistent. Bodies had been shipped to poorly run storage facilities where they were lost or forgotten. He was a strange little man and the police gave him wide berth, but his help was invaluable and he was widely respected within the ranks of the detectives.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“The morale of the Metropolitan Police Force had reached its lowest point during the Ripper murders of the previous year and had not yet recovered. The files of the Whitechapel murders had not been closed as the case was still ongoing, but nobody in London trusted the police to do their job.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard