“I'd do the bastard, then hold the man for a lifetime afterwards.”
“Psychopath." Martin sniffed and shifted his hands down his body to highlight the finery. "Born this way, fuckturd. Jack's the made in the UK sociopath. Don't you know the fucking difference?”
“How first loves and touches didn’t come close to being given the rare privilege of being someone’s last kiss.”
“Jack, you're a switch in every sense of the word.”
“The shit bowl is always easier to clean once it's been flushed. You don't need to know who's sat and caused the stench.”
“Good," said Jack, "because if you get any closer to that car in front, the driver'll be sticking up a sign asking you to climb up through the back window and give him head before you fuck him up the ass, is all.”
“Well, it's better than those yellow sticky labels you suggested tagging to his ass, when we first met.”
“Kind of a Straight For You Thing?”
“I'm doing my job, Jan, and it's fucking killing me with how I'm being made to dance naked in different whore-house windows.”
“when an open sewage system had forced MPs out of the Houses of Parliament, with delicate handkerchiefs held up to their noses to escape the clash of the classes via their asses.”
“Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds”
“Hearing her tell Wardle about the disposable wedding cameras she had ordered had brought home to Strike how soon she would become Mrs. Matthew Cunliffe. There’s still time, he thought. For what, he did not specify, even to himself.”
“I discover that nothing is ever certain. A name, a birthday, an entire life can be invented, and that being so, can be changed.”
“Her father...was all front to back in his transparency: what you saw was what there was, there was nothing clandestine in his character, and those few aspects that were disguised or hidden were that way because they were his closely kept emotions. When on those rare occasions he allowed his emotions to be seen, their appearance was all the more surprising. And more powerful. Which taught her early on a thing or two about the power of what's visible -- it derives its mystery from what it hides. How many stories had she heard of people sensing ghosts behind the walls, hobgoblins in the woods? People living on the shores of lakes since time began have conjured creatures from those depths. If you believe a thing is something different from the evidence before you, if you believe something is hidden by the wall or in the woods or beneath the surface of the lake, then that belief gives power to the darkness and the depths -- power to enchant; to terrify.”
“Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
excessive grief the enemy to the living.”
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