Six Graves Quotes

“Helen was now on antidepressants and viewed as unstable. She had given you up and then she wanted you back. Social services don’t play like that.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“I was chosen and then thrown away because of you. I still belonged in this family, but how could I tell them who I was when they’d made it clear they didn’t want me?”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Gavin was determined to be a part of this family. He targeted Rachel initially and, I’m sorry to say, he met you and you became the easier target. I think he knew Rachel would suss him out eventually.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“What was it about this family that appealed to you so much?’ Bryant asked. ‘You married their daughter. You moved in on the business, and you slept with their other daughter? Why would you do all that?’ ‘You wouldn’t understand.’ ‘Try me,’ Bryant said, folding his arms. It appeared he’d found all the drama.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Please stop,’ Bryant said, holding up his hand. He didn’t want to hear any kind of justification for his actions. Especially when both women concerned were lying dead in the morgue. ‘You knew Rozzie as a child.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“An absolute pig is what you are. A seventeen-year-old girl? The sister of your wife?’ Bryant struggled to get his mind around how many lines this man had crossed. Was there nothing he hadn’t taken from this family?”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“was being eaten alive by the rage at the injustice of his family’s loss. His anger was all over the place, waiting to settle on someone. He was fizzing like a shaken bottle of pop. That made him unpredictable. It made him volatile and dangerous, but did it make him a murderer?”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“An objective co-executor would ensure that any arrangement was in the best interest of the subject. We’re talking doctors reports, expert testimonials, specialist advice.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“You’re welcome. Anything I can do to assist with finding the monster that hurt William and Helen, although I’m not sure how a stuffy old accountant can offer anything helpful.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Kim was annoyed at them. No, they hadn’t outright lied, but they had done a nice job of skirting around the truth.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“To be fair, they appear to have done the guy a lot of good.’ ‘Living with his not parents in his mid-thirties, odd-jobbing for neighbours and obsessing over a girl half his age?’ Stacey queried.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Did Rachel share your concerns?’ ‘We didn’t really talk about it, but I think she was okay with it. Rachel was very live and let live. She didn’t always consider the wider implications. She thought it was commendable, which of course it was, but caution should be exercised when there are long-term implications.’ ‘Financial ones?’ ‘Of course.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“And yet there was something about him that disappointed her; a lack of backbone, courage, conviction. She wondered if that was how his parents had felt. Again, she chided herself. She didn’t know the man well enough to make a judgement on his whole character.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Why, because he was the handyman?’ Bryant snapped. ‘No, because he was considerably older and she seems to have preferred boys her own age,’ Penn replied evenly. Why had she not noticed these occasional terse exchanges between the two of them before Woody had handed her the microscope?”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Only go to see her if there’s something you want to say, something you need her to hear. Go because you’ll regret not doing so when it’s too late, but don’t go because other people think they know what’s right for you.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Kim digested her words. Her only experience of parental love was from two strangers who had not been bonded to her either by blood or a piece of paper.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Every emotion you used tonight was beneficial. Your anger propelled you into action; your fear alerted you that something was wrong. Your stubbornness meant you didn’t stop working on Edna until you brought her back. Your sympathy prompted you to hold her hand. Your empathy got her daughter to the hospital. Your tenacity ensured we stayed there until there was nothing else that could be done.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Why oh why had her only child chosen now to have a sulk because she wouldn’t free up any more money for her good-for-nothing husband, who had malingered his way through the last twenty years taking ‘just to get by’ money from his elderly mother-in-law?”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“She had wanted to fight back. She’d wanted to devise a plan to free herself, but from the minute she’d been forced to sit in her own faeces, her spirit had been broken and she’d known she was going to die.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Doesn’t matter how hard you try, you’re never going to be as much a part of this family as you want to be. You’re not blood, and if you want the truth, my parents only tolerated you because”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Did the elderly man carrying one small bag of shopping have anyone to go home to? Was he just buying all he could afford on a daily basis? Everyone had a story, a life, problems, tragedies. She had the sudden urge to stand up and shout, ‘My whole family was just murdered,’ and begin some kind of impromptu group counselling session.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“She remained unnoticed as she lit her second secret cigarette and delighted just for a second at the action. She had given up the minute she’d even suspected she might be pregnant, and nine months nicotine free had cemented her decision not to start again, but recent events had destroyed that resolve.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“, which was committed by someone who decided to try and make it look like she’d been responsible for murdering her own children. Now would you like to help?’ ‘I’ve helped as much as I think I can.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“If you’ve lost something so precious, don’t you overcompensate and go extreme on what you’ve got left? At the time Helen lost that middle child, she already had twins, and following the loss, she had two more children.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“She’d learned that when Zach saw something he wanted, he didn’t care who he had to hurt to get it.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Someone in the family has to be,’ Zach answered. ‘Bookcases and sideboards just don’t do it for me – or for Rachel either.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Put me out of business. I had no customers left cos I’d thrown all the eggs and the bloody chicken into one basket, and I got shafted. No income, no business, nothing to hand down to my own kid. Just because some donkey brain wanted to save a few quid.’ ‘Did William know the effect it was going to have on you?”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Whatever you thought the world owed you appears to have landed in your lap. You have a beautiful family, you had a ready-made, extended family and a thriving instant business to run that, although not your own, is not without its perks,’ she said, looking around.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“You get it for a prolonged and unprovoked attack on someone that jumped the queue in the chip shop and was left with permanent injuries.”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves

“Like whom, Inspector? Lewis was a child who couldn’t see beyond the end of a game controller. Rozzie was a self-absorbed YouTuber obsessed with followers and approval,”
― Angela Marsons, Six Graves