The Way Through The Woods Quotes

“This was exactly why holidays were so valuable, he told himself: they allowed you to stand back a bit, and see where you were going rusty.”
― Colin Dexter, The Way Through The Woods

“As a boy, he had been moved by those words of the dying Socrates, suggesting that if death were just one long, unbroken, dreamless sleep, then a greater boon could hardly be bestowed upon mankind.”
― Colin Dexter, The Way Through the Woods

“Morse poured himself a can of beer. "Champagne's a lovely drink, but it makes you thirsty, doesn't it?”
― Colin Dexter, The Way Through The Woods

“Nothing quite like it in the whole history of music," announced Morse magisterially, after Brünnhilde had ridden into the flames and the waves of the Rhine had finally rippled into silence.

"You think so?"
"Don't you?"
"I prefer Elizabethan madrigals, really."
For a few moments Morse said nothing, saddened by her lack of sensitivity, it seemed.”
― Colin Dexter, The Way Through The Woods

“Boustrophedon.”
― Colin Dexter, The Way Through the Woods

“But quietly now, rather movingly, Strange was making his plea: "Christ knows why, Lewis, but he'll always put himself out a bit for you. Did you realize that?”
― Colin Dexter, The Way Through the Woods