Quotes

The Cuckoo's Calling: Part 1

[To his false leg] Bollocks! Why do I always take you off before I remember to have a piss? [He reaches for a coffee mug and pees into it]

The Cuckoo's Calling: Part 1

Nico Kolovas-Jones: She lived in a world that's really fucking hard. We had a lot in common. Cormoran Strike: Such as? Nico Kolovas-Jones: Both mixed-race, for one thing. My dad's a Cypriot from Swansea, and my mum's a West Indian Scouser. Cormoran Strike: [Ironically] Must have been a nice quiet wedding.

The Cuckoo's Calling: Part 3

The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.

The Silkworm: Part 2

Robin Ellacott: [Comes home from work to find that Matthew has returned from his mother's funeral and is ironing one of her dresses] Wow. Thanks. Matthew Cunliffe: Have you ever tried to iron a dress? There's no right angles. Robin Ellacott: Well, that's the problem with breasts for you.

Career of Evil: Part 1

[To DI Wardle, on the phone over Robin having had just opened a package containing a bottom human leg half at the workplace] We've been sent a leg. It's not even in my size.

Lethal White: Part 1

Jasper Chiswell: You're not due here for another hour. Raff Chiswell: I thought you valued punctuality. Jasper Chiswell: Being early is not punctual. Being on time is punctual

Lethal White: Part 3

[Confronted by a man with a kitchen knife] What are you going to do; butter me?

Lethal White: Part 3

Robin Ellacott: [Gets into a taxi and bursts into tears. The taxi driver hands her a box of tissues] I've just left my husband. Minicab Driver: [Sympathetically] Yeah? I've left two. Gets easier with practice.

Lethal White: Part 3

Robin Ellacott: [She is leaving Matthew overs proof that he is having an affair] I don't want to be with you any more. We should have split up on honeymoon. I mean, we shouldn't even have got married. I thought I owed you this face to face. Matthew Cunliffe: How do you think your life looks to other people? You bailed out on uni. Now you're bailing out on us. You're a flake. You're a Peeping Tom for a living - and you managed to get sacked from that! You know he's only taken you back because you're cheap. Robin Ellacott: [Calmly] Thank you. You've just made this really easy.