The Dead Hour Quotes

“It was Lord of the Flies without table manners.”
― Denise Mina, The Dead Hour

“Strangers in the Night” because their granny told them that when nice girls whistled Our Lady cried. Her sister smiled a little, looked down at her rosary beads, and carried on.”
― Denise Mina, The Dead Hour

“The housing stock along the broad Edinburgh Road was a linear map of a century of social housing, from scrubby squares of muddy grass around garden city dreams, to high-rise machines for living. Occasionally they passed a wall of undemolished tenements, the old housing design that had worked in the city for centuries.”
― Denise Mina, The Dead Hour