Red Bones Quotes

“Anna opened her eyes and saw a pair of hands, streaked and shiny with blood. No face.”
― Ann Cleeves, Red Bones

“Guilt was part of his make-up, part of what his first wife had called his emotional incontinence”
― Ann Cleeves, Blue Lightning

“cautious and precise.”
― Ann Cleeves, Blue Lightning

“excuse to run away from the”
― Ann Cleeves, Red Bones

“HR manager might be interested in something”
― Ann Cleeves, Blue Lightning

“this was how women fought. With civilized words carrying poison.”
― Ann Cleeves, Red Bones

“Sometimes she’d scream at him, laughing but irritated too. ‘How can you just sit there? What is going on inside your head?’ He was never quite sure how to answer. Stories, he thought. I just tell myself stories.”
― Ann Cleeves, Red Bones

“Second cousins.”
― Ann Cleeves, Red Bones

“The inspector listened to folk talking, just throwing in a question occasionally, like tossing a pebble into a pool and waiting to see what the ripples stirred up.”
― Ann Cleeves, Red Bones

“There was a sort of magic in his asking the right questions the first time, picking up the clues in a situation, knowing when it was time to move on.”
― Ann Cleeves, Red Bones

“If you met him you’d think the inspector was kind of slow. It was his way of thinking before he spoke so you knew that when the words came out they were just the ones he’d intended.”
― Ann Cleeves, Red Bones

“I’m a historian by training, Jimmy. Telling the truth has become a habit.”
― Ann Cleeves, Blue Lightning

“A strange sort of claustrophobia. Though he’d grown up in Fair Isle and that was smaller than Whalsay, here he felt trapped, as if it was hard to breathe.”
― Ann Cleeves, Red Bones

“That was his father's way. Things he couldn't change he made the best of. He said there was no point in taking on the world. He'd never win.”
― Ann Cleeves, Red Bones

“Paul”
― Ann Cleeves, Red Bones

“came”
― Ann Cleeves, Red Bones