Cut Dead Quotes

“He’ll have a big house in a posh village. You see, Charlotte, how from up here, given the right clues, we can determine everything. A bit like God really. Or, continuing my metaphor, the audience. Pure theatre.”
― Mark Sennen, Cut Dead

“History was composed of events like this and you revealed your age by how far back you could remember. Was it the searches on the moors, the prostitutes who weren’t missed in Halifax and Leeds, the runaways who vanished into the hell which was Cromwell Street or two little girls missing in Soham?”
― Mark Sennen, Cut Dead

“She got out of the car, grabbed the carriers of shopping and strolled down the pavement to her gate. Up the path and the key was in the lock, door opening,”
― Mark Sennen, Cut Dead

“Wondered what story they might be able to tell, the secrets they might give up, the secrets they would hold on to forever.”
― Mark Sennen, Cut Dead

“What had this woman and the other victims done which could merit such violence being done to them?”
― Mark Sennen, Cut Dead

“Hope, Savage thought, probably didn’t play much of a part in his professional life because invariably there was none for the people who appeared before him. Hope was an emotion for the living, those left behind, those praying for some sort of resolution.”
― Mark Sennen, Cut Dead

“Jobs where people did what you told them to instead of giving you backchat and filthy looks. Jobs where the government wasn’t constantly on your back telling you how useless your profession was. Jobs where the coffee machine worked.”
― Mark Sennen, Cut Dead

“The Chief was Simon Fox, known as Foxy to the rank and file. Like all leaders, he had a tendency to push down directives from on high. Any complaints would be met with a smile on his lamb-like face. Followed by a sting from his scorpion tail.”
― Mark Sennen, Cut Dead

“To the real Charlotte Savage”
― Mark Sennen, Cut Dead