The Shell House Detectives Quotes

“You have to look after each other, she thinks, when you’re in a similar kind of boat. Hell, you have to look after each other anyway.”
― Emylia Hall, The Shell House Detectives

“And, for once, the thought of Kieran is centring.”
― Emylia Hall, The Shell House Detectives

“collar”
― Emylia Hall, The Shell House Detectives

“I said, why were you in Porthpella back then?’ He starts the engine back up again. Eyes her sideways. ‘My wife’s missing,’ he says. ‘You’ll have to excuse me if I’m not in the mood for reminiscing about holidays gone by.’ And he swings back out into the traffic.”
― Emylia Hall, The Shell House Detectives

“Then she turns in the other direction and hurls the stick towards the sky, which still blazes with uncomplicated beauty.”
― Emylia Hall, The Shell House Detectives

“The grass glints with sea glass and, when the wind’s blowing onshore, it’s scattered with sand: the line between beach and garden blurred.”
― Emylia Hall, The Shell House Detectives

“It’s never mattered how well she knows the paths, or how most of the time all she’s startled by is the sudden dart of a rabbit or the shriek of a gull; she’s still primed for it – all women are, aren’t they? This threat that they all feel; this injustice that’s so engrained it’s almost normal.”
― Emylia Hall, The Shell House Detectives