We Chase Shadows Quotes

“She’s never seen Steve flirt before, and if this is what it looks like, she never wants to again. He is going to need lessons. It’s like watching a penguin roller-skate.”
― Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows

“Tommy Griffin is barking into his phone. “Take a jump off a pier, Ken. An’ fill ya pockets with rocks on the way down.” He sounds very angry. If you were to pass him on the street you would assume that he was furious with someone. This “John” guy he’s talking to, presumably. But get to know Tommy Griffin a little better, and you’d know that this is just the way he talks. It’s the way he orders his coffee, the way he offers condolences at a funeral, and the way he reads his grandkids a bedtime story. “This goddamn cat is too damn proud of this goddamn hat, you ask me.” His default speech is “barely controlled fury,” but he means nothing by it.”
― Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows

“Definitely maybe,” says Vern. “Terrible album,” says Steve,”
― Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows

“What is he, seventeen? It breaks her heart a little to see a young boy having to try on such grown-up clothes. She could be his mother. “Okay, five hundred,” says the young man. “But only because you remind me of my nan.” Or grandmother, of course. Sometimes one forgets one’s age. In Felicity’s head she’s the same age she was when she was arguing with Daphne about what floor of the Reading Ramada Barry Westover should be on.”
― Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows

“Revenge is more fun in the mind than in reality,” says Steve. “Thinking of ways of killing someone is like looking at houses on those websites. Actually killing someone is like buying a house. Money, lawyers, stress.”
― Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows

“Ernesto is in his office that overlooks the harbor in Barcelona. He once went to a police station in Great Britain that overlooked the recycling bins of a supermarket. Ernesto likes British people very much indeed, but if he lived in Britain the first thing he would have to do is buy curtains, and the second thing he would have to do is close them.”
― Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows

“It was, once they had got used to him, very useful that Leopold was always wrong, as it enabled them to narrow down many cases immediately, simply through suspecting the precise opposite of what Leopold suspected. It was, in its own way, as useful as working with Mr. Sherlock Holmes himself.”
― Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows

“He had a boss once, a Belgian man, but not Poirot, not this guy. Where Poirot was neat and methodical and always right, this man, Leopold, was an untidy firework and, more to the point, always wrong.”
― Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows

“And he’s not in jail?” Rosie asks. “You want to find us some evidence,” says Ernesto”
― Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows