The Missing Ones Quotes

“Sometimes you were better off not knowing, rather than finding yourself literally in the dark.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“spliff”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“her life choked away beneath the tightness, in a strange way she welcomed the physical pain over the anguished years of mental affliction. Descending darkness extinguished the flame on the candle as his hand jerked once, then twice, and her body slackened and all fear eased from her being. Within those last moments of torment she allowed the shadows to lead her to a place of light and comfort, to a peace she had never experienced with the living. Tiny”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“them”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“Tom Rickard”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“Gerry Dunne’s”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“When Adam had died a part of her had died with him. Cliché or not, it was the truth.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“wanted”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“along the”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“away, but her energy was spent and she knew it was now her time. Tears threatened at the corners of her eyes and his hand closed around her throat, gloved fingers tracking a line up and down her loose flesh. Her hands flew up to grab at his but he swatted her away. His fingers found the iPod cable and she felt him twisting it, curling it about her neck. She smelled his sour aftershave and she became totally aware then that she would die without”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“Garda O’Donoghue was writing down whatever the paramedic”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“Someone must think I've nothing to do, they keep supplying me with bodies.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“There was no escaping it. Church and State.

Two thorns in the history of Ragmillin and in her own history.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“life was made up of bad choices.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“With her head bent low into the breeze, she trudged through the town as quickly as the frozen footpaths”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“glad all the false décor would soon be consigned to the attic. She hated – no, despised – Christmas”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“Within those last moments of torment she allowed the shadows to lead her to a place of light and comfort , to a peace she had never experienced with the living. Tiny stars pinpricked her eyes before blackness washed in a wave through her dying body.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“As her life choked away beneath the tightness , in a strange way she welcomed the physical pain over the anguished years of mental affliction.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“cobble-stoned”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“I don’t like being reminded of things I don’t remember doing while in a state of unremembrance.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“Forgot to tell you,’ Boyd said, ‘Garda O’Donoghue found this.’ He held up her scuffed leather slouch bag. ‘Where?’ Lottie grabbed the bag and rummaged through it. ‘Dumped at the tunnel, down by the recycling tyre depot. Not far from where you were attacked,’ he said.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“Corrigan’s shoulder, caught him”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“be scooped up. So you make sure the money”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“make of Maria Lynch, with her freckled nose, inquisitive eyes and long hair tied up childishly in a ponytail, always dressed smartly. She looked eighteen, but having served fifteen years in the force, she was closer to thirty-five. Enthusiastic without overdoing it. She was aware that Lynch was super ambitious and Lottie had no intention of falling into the female rivalry trap. But she had to admit to a slight jealousy of the domestic stability her detective possessed. Lynch was married, she assumed happily. It was said her husband cooked, hoovered, brought their two small children to school before he went to work and all that shite. ‘It’s an absolute tip in there. I don’t know how the woman survived in such a dump,’ Lynch said, wiping dust from her pressed navy trousers. Lottie”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“gardaí”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“He either lied to us or was economical with the truth.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“pointing to the rows of black spines on the shelves.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“that school over the years,’ he said, pointing”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“She changed her name.’ She traced her finger along the row.”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones

“Lottie thought,”
― Patricia Gibney, The Missing Ones