An Accidental Death Quotes

“You think it’s just selfishness?’ ‘Just? Makes it sound trivial. All crime is caused by selfishness, I say. It’s the ‘Me first, my needs first’. Take that away and you’re about one step from paradise. Don’t ask me what the last step is, I don’t know, but it sounds good.”
― Peter Grainger, An Accidental Death

“The ability to research properly is founded on apparently endless and apparently idle curiosity.”
― Peter Grainger, The Late Lord Thorpe

“don’t know about justice. I’ve never seen myself on a white charger, righting wrongs – but we have to catch people so that they can’t create all this again. And so that other people get the message – you will be caught, you will pay. We never know how many selfish acts we prevent when we show people the consequences, but we have to keep showing them the consequences. These are the consequences.’ Smith had raised a hand, palm open towards the new grave. ‘You think it’s just selfishness?’ ‘Just? Makes it sound trivial. All crime is caused by selfishness, I say. It’s the ‘Me first, my needs first’ attitude.”
― Peter Grainger, An Accidental Death

“don’t know about justice. I’ve never seen myself on a white charger, righting wrongs – but we have to catch people so that they can’t create all this again. And so that other people get the message – you will be caught, you will pay. We never know how many selfish acts we prevent when we show people the consequences, but we have to keep showing them the consequences. These are the consequences.”
― Peter Grainger, An Accidental Death

“degree. Short term memory is usually considered to be up to thirty seconds – that’s all – but another part of the brain can be trained to organise and store those perceptions indefinitely. Neuroscientists also believe there is no effective limit to the amount of information a healthy human brain can store in this way if it has had the right sort of training. Detectives who had”
― Peter Grainger, The Late Lord Thorpe

“Uncovering the past was like uncovering some archeological remains, best done slowly with a fine brush, time’s work being so fragile.”
― Peter Grainger, An Accidental Death

“Someone once said that life is a meditation on death. I”
― Peter Grainger, An Accidental Death

“In quick succession he tried surprise, toughness and nonchalance but nothing lasted and the end result was only uncertainty”
― Peter Grainger, An Accidental Death

“providing food for people too vain or idle to work in such places themselves any longer.”
― Peter Grainger, An Accidental Death