Lines of Inquiry Quotes

“Keen, isn’t he?’ Gil said.
‘Mustard personified.”
― Rhys Dylan, Lines of Inquiry

“The DC swung around to face his boss. ‘Gina bought me a gizmo, sir.’ He held up a tiny hourglass style sand‑timer in a reenforced metal cylinder attached to his keys. ‘Glow in the dark, sir. Never get the brew wrong with this.’Warlow nodded his approval. ‘She’s a keeper, that one.’
‘Actually, sir, she plays full back.’
Gil, who’d been arranging a plate of biscuits, stopped, and slowly turned his head to contemplate Rhys. ‘Arglwydd, be still my beating heart. Rhys has cracked a joke and by Grabjar’s Hammer, it’s one worthy of mirth.”
― Rhys Dylan, Lines of Inquiry

“I’m not a big believer in the scriptures”
― Rhys Dylan, Lines of Inquiry

“The DC swung around to face his boss. ‘Gina bought me a gizmo, sir.’ He held up a tiny hourglass style sand‑timer in a reenforced metal cylinder attached to his keys. ‘Glow in the dark, sir. Never get the brew wrong with this.’
Warlow nodded his approval. ‘She’s a keeper, that one.’
‘Actually, sir, she plays full back.’
Gil, who’d been arranging a plate of biscuits, stopped, and slowly turned his head to contemplate Rhys. ‘Arglwydd, be still my beating heart. Rhys has cracked a joke and by Grabjar’s Hammer, it’s one worthy of mirth.”
― Rhys Dylan, Lines of Inquiry

“They defaulted to a simpler dichotomy. Right and wrong. And they both retained, with pride, a sense of privilege, which was nothing to do with colour or sex. Because for them, it meant simply that they’d attained a place of competence in the world. A commodity of experience that made them valuable cogs in the machinery that existed solely to try to keep society functioning against an ever-inventive antisocial element. The thieves, the fraudsters, the violent, the manipulators, the killers. The hunt was their opportunity to right some of those wrongs. It drove them, these middle-aged foot soldiers”
― Rhys Dylan, Lines of Inquiry

“with”
― Rhys Dylan, Lines of Inquiry

“Dan’s father.”
― Rhys Dylan, Lines of Inquiry

“surreptitiously shunting the snap-on cover of a ballpoint pen around the edge of a sheet of paper like a toy train set,”
― Rhys Dylan, Lines of Inquiry

“Foxtrot, Foxtrot, Sierra.”
― Rhys Dylan, Lines of Inquiry