The Snowdonia Killings Quotes

“Alcohol wasn’t the problem. He was the problem. The pain, anguish and anxiety he felt needed to be masked, and alcohol was his medicine of choice. It did the trick. Or at least it used to.”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“The air around him smelled of dampness and the decay of fallen leaves. But the rain had also made it fresh and light.”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“deception regarding her whereabouts on Thursday night. She was upset and scared, and claimed that it was Jonathan Noakes’ idea to fabricate their stories. When news of Arabella Dixon’s murder surfaced, he had called and told her if the police questioned her, she needed to say she was at home that night. Jonathan had said that it wouldn’t look good they had all been at the”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“The scrubs area outside the mortuary”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“Ruth still had that nagging twinge of imposter syndrome. Whatever she had achieved in her – not insubstantial – career, Ruth never seemed to build any internal surety of meaningful confidence. She knew she was a good police officer, she always did her job as best she could, but no matter her success rate, she still feared that one day she would be ‘found out’ as a fraud.”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“giving it the big one’ and putting all their backs up. Bloody English. They were short of DIs but if she patronised anyone in CID, then Nick was ready to set her straight. He had already rehearsed what he would say to her as soon as she started. He’d played that conversation out in his brain a few times recently. That’s just what he was like.”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“He had no desire to be like his father, ever, or anything that looked like him. The hate and resentment were still there and, no matter how much he talked to his AA sponsor, it never seemed to dissipate.”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“When he couldn’t sleep, he felt more comfortable looking out at the night sky. In Alcoholics Anonymous they called it his ‘Higher Power’. A spiritual connection to something greater than himself. It was less claustrophobic maybe? However, his Higher Power was failing him miserably at the moment and he needed a drink. It’s the first drink that gets you drunk. Not the fourth or the fifth. The first. But he knew that. He didn’t need self-righteous slogans reverberating around his head at this time of the morning. Already his body had tensed with anger.”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“Romans, Chapter 12, Verses 19-21. “Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord. On the contrary: ‘If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.’ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“Revenge is sweet and not fattening.’ Alfred Hitchcock”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“The worst were the Christians who would try to have ‘a quiet word’ with him before the meeting, trotting out the usual shit. They based the twelve steps of recovery on the Bible. He needed to say his prayers every morning. Fire and brimstone. Nothing worse than a converted alcoholic who then becomes a bullying AA zealot.”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“Booze. That sensual, beautiful, warm feeling that the first drink of the day brings. Like a deep, warm bath. But, of course, then the guilt. Who drank vodka at 4am? Answer? He did.”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.’ Mahatma Gandhi”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“One day you wake up, look in the mirror and you realise you’re shaving your father.”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“teachers from”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“were”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings