The Stone Circle Quotes

“She glances at her wrist where a Fitbit, a Christmas present from her brother Simon and sister-in-law Cathy, sits smugly. She presses the button and it tells her that she has walked 2,007 steps since getting up (it tracks her sleep too). Surely it’s more than that? She sometimes suspects Cathy, at least, of less-than-charitable motives in giving this particular present, a sort of mini-Cathy that nags her all day about doing more exercise. Ruth fears that her relationship with the Fitbit is already an unhealthy one. She worries about its good opinion of her (otherwise why not take it off?)”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle

“The landscape itself is important. This is a liminal zone, between land and water, sea and sky . . .”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle

“the embers now glowing like tiny dragons.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle

“Kim looks up and to the right. A good sign, according to a neural linguistic programming course that Judy once attended, because it means that Kim is remembering past experiences.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle

“It’s hard work, being nice to irritating people.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle

“The Nix were shape-shifters. Sometimes they appear as beautiful women, sitting combing their long blue hair, their voices luring sailors to death on the jagged rocks. Sometimes the Nix is a man playing a violin, a wild tune that the traveller must follow at his peril. The Nix can even appear as a horse, a brook horse it’s called in Scandinavian legend, a beautiful animal, snow white or coal black, that appears in the water by a ravine or a waterfall. If you climb on its back you can never dismount and the horse will gallop away to the ends of the earth. On dark nights you can hear the horse’s hoofbeats, steady and relentless, carrying its rider to hell.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle

“The area around King’s Lynn is marked as ‘tidal flat deposits’ and she knows that this will be clay and silt, built up during the millennia north Norfolk was covered by the sea (Lynn is the Celtic word for lake), so the soil is shallow and lime-rich over chalk or limestone.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle

“I don’t want to give her the chance to flirt or get on the defensive,’ says Nelson. ‘Just a nice woman-to-woman chat.’ He says this like it’s a new language. ‘That’s sexist,’ says Judy, but she picks up her bag all the same. ‘Is it?’ says Nelson. ‘But I said woman not girl.’ ‘You’re learning,’ says Judy. Very slowly, she adds to herself.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle

“Ruth fears that her relationship with the Fitbit is already an unhealthy one. She worries about its good opinion of her (otherwise why not take it off?) but she also resents its chirpy bullying. Almost there! You’ve nailed your step target for the day! Never trust anyone, or anything, that uses that many exclamation marks.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle

“The secret of health is not to mourn for the past or worry about the future but to live in the present wisely,’ says Star. ‘That’s what Cathbad says.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle

“The secret of health is not to mourn for the past or worry about the future but to live in the present wisely,”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle

“Is this what her future is going to be, hanging round on the outskirts of Nelson’s life with her only reward being the occasional night of (admittedly fantastic) sex? She shouldn’t settle for it. She mustn’t settle for it.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle

“(Lynn is the Celtic word for lake),”
― Elly Griffiths, The Stone Circle