The Crossing Quotes

“That was one of the main problems in dealing with an organisation that believed all your crimes could be forgiven if you just prayed hard enough.”
― Matt Brolly, The Crossing

“If ifs and buts were candy and nuts,”
― Matt Brolly, The Crossing

“The crossing was the hardest Geoff had faced so far.”
― Matt Brolly, The Crossing

“even Channel Five was a stretch too far for her.”
― Matt Brolly, The Crossing

“Her son had bought her some sort of contraption for her television one Christmas years ago. Supposedly, it had hundreds of extra channels, but she couldn’t understand how it worked and made do with the four terrestrial channels –”
― Matt Brolly, The Crossing

“There was an incident with one of the tennis coaches.’ ‘An incident?’ ‘Some of us were not happy with the lack of time he was spending at the club.’ ‘And?’ ‘And Veronica and I made a formal complaint. Some of these coaches think they can come and go, work when they like. We needed someone committed to the club, someone willing to help out.’ ‘What was the name of the coach?’ ‘Matt Lambert.’ ‘He’s still at the club?’ ‘Unfortunately, yes.’ ‘So he’s employed by the club?’ ‘No, self-employed.’ ‘Let me get this straight,’ said Louise slowly. ‘You tried to get the coach sacked because he wasn’t at the club enough, yet no one would be paying him for the extra time?’ ‘You don’t quite understand.’ ‘I think I do. You think this coach would feel so aggrieved as to brutally murder Veronica and leave her body on the beach?’ ‘How the hell would I know?’ The interview was going nowhere fast. Louise didn’t like to pigeonhole people on first impressions, but she could see Estelle was a spoilt, privileged lady used to getting her own way. It saddened her to think that”
― Matt Brolly, The Crossing

“counting”
― Matt Brolly, The Crossing

“isolation. The gentle ache he’d”
― Matt Brolly, The Crossing