The Dark Angel Quotes

“How can women like Shona and Michelle keep them draped all day? Ruth’s scarves either fall in her coffee or try to strangle her.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel

“Look which way the bones lie. The position tells you everything. In Christian burials, bodies are usually buried facing east, supposedly towards heaven. Sometimes priests and religious leaders are buried facing west, so that they can rise facing their people. Facing downwards, you are looking at something else altogether.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel

“It’s not about good and bad,’ says Derek. ‘It’s opportunity and environment that creates criminals”
― Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel

“History is written by the victors,”
― Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel

“has always disliked about evangelicals. The way they talk about God as if he’s God Smith who lives next door.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel

“tell from bones whether someone has had a tattoo?’ ‘Well,’ says Ruth, ‘the ink used in tattoos can migrate to the lymph nodes so,”
― Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel

“Something she had once heard comes back to Ruth. Saints cause a lot of trouble for the rest of us.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel

“Everything changes but nothing is destroyed.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel

“We can’t know all the patterns of the great web. We can just hope that it will make sense one day.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel