The Ghost Fields Quotes

“Old George watches her glumly from under his eyebrows.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Ghost Fields

“Ruth switches on Radio 4 for comfort but it's a dramatisation of Wuthering Heights, and after a few minutes of desolate moorland and doomed love, Ruth turns it off again. I cannot live without my life, I cannot live without my soul. That's all very well, Rith tells Cathy, but sometimes you just have to.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Ghost Fields

“Even when she is excavating the remains of people who died thousands of years ago,she thinks that she can tell when death had been from unnatural causes. A grave is a footprint of disturbance, that's what she told Nelson, and she thinks that the disturbance stays in the air–and in the land–for a very long time.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Ghost Fields

“It’s not in Ruth’s nature to imagine that men are interested in her.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Ghost Fields

“There’s”
― Elly Griffiths, The Ghost Fields

“than”
― Elly Griffiths, The Ghost Fields

“I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood, Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red heath, The red-ribb’d ledges drip with a silent horror of blood, And Echo there, whatever is ask’d her, answers ‘Death.’ –Alfred Tennyson, Maud”
― Elly Griffiths, The Ghost Fields

“He was almost sick when Chaz was telling us about the piggies’ eating habits.’ ‘They eat us,’ says Clough thickly, ‘I eat them. It’s only justice.’ ‘Is”
― Elly Griffiths, The Ghost Fields

“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy . . . that is your success. All nature is your congratulation . . .”
― Elly Griffiths, The Ghost Fields

“not”
― Elly Griffiths, The Ghost Fields