Old Bones Quotes

“I deduced it from the simple fact that these bones belonged to the real Guillaume. Therefore, nobody else could be him, no matter how many people recognized him or think they recognized him. He’s been down in that cellar for almost fifty years. At least that’s the way it looks to me.”
― Aaron Elkins, Old Bones

“gray-clad knees that hadn’t come within ten inches of the soil. “Shall we have a look at the remains?” he said. “Perhaps we’d better establish at once that we’re not dealing with a polydactylous pig.” “We’re not,” Gideon said. “I can see that from here.”
― Aaron Elkins, Old Bones

“Well, you know what they say: Maybe money doesn’t bring happiness, but it sure enough quiets the nerves.”
― Aaron Elkins, Old Bones

“Where had the Taras and Megans and Ians come from? Buried in his work, had he missed some clandestine migration of Celts from across the sea?”
― Aaron Elkins, Old Bones

“Funny the way policemen never seem to be particularly appreciative when obliging laymen point out self-evident facts to them.”
― Aaron Elkins, Old Bones

“I don’t have to be right, I am right,”
― Aaron Elkins, Old Bones