Mortal Causes Quotes

“Now is the first day of the rest of your strife.”
― Ian Rankin, Mortal Causes

“The Scottish vernacular is rich in colourful euphemisms for inebriation: ‘stocious’, ‘stotting’, ‘guttered’, ‘steaming’, ‘steamboats’, ‘wellied’ and ‘hoolit’ are just a few. Another is ‘mortal’, as in ‘I was fair mortal last night’ (meaning ‘I was very drunk indeed’). So ‘Mortal Causes’ evoked, in my mind, the demon drink, just as surely as it did any darker and more violent imagery.”
― Ian Rankin, Mortal Causes

“The shirt would offend all but the colour blind and the truly blind. It had so many rhinestones on it, Rebus was in no doubt the rhine mines were now exhausted as a result.”
― Ian Rankin, Mortal Causes

“If arseholes could fly, this place would be an airport’.”
― Ian Rankin, Mortal Causes

“document”
― Ian Rankin, Mortal Causes

“We Scots, Rebus thought, we’re not very good at going public. We store up our true feelings like fuel for long winter nights of whisky and recrimination. So little of us ever reaches the surface, it’s a wonder we exist at all.”
― Ian Rankin, Mortal Causes

“He studied Arch Gowrie now. The man was big and fiftyish and probably attractive to women in that way older men could be.”
― Ian Rankin, Mortal Causes

“It’s the same in England,’ they’d tell her. ‘Wherever you’ve got Catholics and Protestants in the same place.’ Manchester had United (Catholic) and City (Protestant), Liverpool had Liverpool (Catholic) and Everton (Protestant). It only got complicated in London. London even had Jewish teams.”
― Ian Rankin, Mortal Causes

“Sin and evil weren’t black – he’d argued the point with a priest – but were greyly anonymous.”
― Ian Rankin, Mortal Causes