A Private Investigation Quotes

“This was the home of the old life and the old love, but now change is coming. And change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.”
― Peter Grainger, A Private Investigation

“Arrests are made all the time, and not always because the police think they have the guilty party, but the public, led by the media, God bless them, assume you’ve caught the bugger as soon as someone is arrested.”
― Peter Grainger, A Private Investigation

“The arrival of a new male presence in a household is never straightforward when teenage girls are present, and sometimes – too often, in fact – the girls turn out to be part of the attraction in the first place. Sad and unpleasant but true, as the statistics clearly show.”
― Peter Grainger, A Private Investigation

“He said, ‘Tell me about the primary sort. Just one sentence if you can.’ ‘They don’t empathise, they don’t share in other’s emotions, they don’t feel guilt or remorse. The rest of us would hardly recognise the world if we saw it through their eyes.”
― Peter Grainger, A Private Investigation

“Yes, I know who he is.’ ‘He talked about it. I can’t remember the exact words but he said that it changes who you are, every time you encounter the worst things that people can do. You have to be aware of that, in yourself. You have to decide at some point how much you are prepared to take. And in one of his books he wrote that the very nature of the work erodes you.’ Smith considered it before saying, ‘Good choice of word.”
― Peter Grainger, A Private Investigation