The Night Hawks Quotes

“There’s plenty of money in the world,’ she told him once, ‘it’s just not shared out fairly.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Night Hawks

“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in the deep waters, these see the work of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Night Hawks

“Ruth is in a meeting about Virtual Learning Environments. It’s very dull and rather depressing. Steven, the head of technical support, is telling them that soon they will be able to communicate remotely with their students via something called Zoom. ‘You won’t have to see your students at all,’ he says with a cheery smile, ‘except on the computer screen.’ It sounds like a nightmare to Ruth. She frequently complains about her students—though not aloud now that she’s department head—but, in truth, interacting with them is one of the best things about the job. No intake is ever the same, which is why teaching stays so interesting. She gets a lot of satisfaction when a student, so shy in the first term that they can’t speak, suddenly becomes obsessed with Iron Age burials in the third and won’t stop talking about them. How will this manifest itself via this Zoom thingy? A song of the same name by Fat Larry’s Band comes into her head and, unfortunately, stays there.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Night Hawks

“It was a dog,’ says Tony. ‘A dog the size of an elephant.’ ‘An elephant, Tony?’ says Judy. ‘Really?’ She usually finds Tony’s enthusiasm endearing but sometimes he sounds like a schoolboy in the back of a bus describing how he saw a spider that big in the bath. ‘A baby elephant,’ says Tony.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Night Hawks

“Château Lestevenie brut chilling in the fridge, and I’m sure you’d agree that’s the best of our sparkling wines.”
― Martin Walker, The Coldest Case

“Ruth doesn’t know quite how David Brown manages to come along too. It certainly isn’t because she invited him. All she knows, as she climbs into her lime-spattered Renault, is that David is next to her, folding his long legs into the passenger seat and adjusting it without her permission. She can’t really tell him to get out.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Night Hawks

“Cathbad is no fan of the police in general and, sometimes, looking at events around the world, Judy agrees with him.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Night Hawks

“Judy remembers Selina Spencer talking about ‘the oldies club’ but Bryan doesn’t look as if he’s near retirement age. He’s a small man, thin and tanned with hair that’s still more brown than grey. He tells Judy that he’s fifty-five.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Night Hawks