Still Life Quotes

“Nothing consoles you for the loss of someone you love. You absorb it into you. You move forward but you move in a different way.’ She”
― Val McDermid, Still Life

“dead,”
― Val McDermid, Still Life

“injuries were consistent with murder rather than accident.”
― Val McDermid, Still Life

“The name hung between them like a motionless pendulum, waiting for a push to set it in motion.”
― Val McDermid, Still Life

“A cold case was a story, constructed piece by piece. Sometimes the pieces arrived in the wrong order so it made no sense at first...at the end, if you found all the pieces, you had a coherent tale. Sometimes, though, you ended up with a stack of ill-assorted bits that didn't quite fit...Then it was like one of those novels that won literary prizes, the ones where you got to the end, closed the book and asked yourself, 'What just happened here?”
― Val McDermid, Still Life

“There was already a pot of coffee on the table; as far as Karen was concerned, this was about as good as it got in the absence of bacon, black pudding and tattie scones.”
― Val McDermid, Still Life