The Janus Stone Quotes

“You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit, everything changes, nothing perishes,”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“We tend to think of the Romans as so civilised, he’d said, so outraged by the barbaric Iron Age practices but there is plenty of evidence of Roman punishment burials, ritual killing and even infanticide. A boy’s skull found in St Albans about ten years ago, for example, showed that its owner had been battered to death and then decapitated. At Springfield in Kent foundation sacrifices of paired babies had been found at all four corners of a Roman temple.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“We think they’re walls,’ replies Max, his face lighting up in the way that archaeologists have when they are about to bore the pants off you.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“She thinks of the Saltmarsh and its secrets: the hidden causeway, the henge, the bodies buried where the land meets the sea.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“Ruth is not particularly interested in the age-old struggle between Catholic and Protestant. To her, all religions are as bad as each other. Though at least Catholicism has nicer pictures.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“He hasn’t seen Ruth since the case ended three months ago.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“She doesn’t mind the dark but the light can be terrifying.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“She has never found God but, then again, she isn’t about to go looking.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“infallibility.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“A fan! According to him Father Hennessey is a combination of Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela and Winnie-thebloody-Pooh.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“When he gets back to the station, Nelson laboriously Googles ‘the twitch upon the thread’ and comes up with a quotation from G.K. Chesterton: ‘I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.’ ‘Bollocks,’ says Nelson, switching off the computer.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“G.K. Chesterton: ‘I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“Nelson feels rather proud of this. They may have been here four hundred years, he thinks, but to us they were still foreigners, occupiers, with their fancy, glass-making ways.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“Ah, DCI Nelson. He’s a fine man, I think. A man with morals.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“you wanted to talk to me about SHCH.’ Sacred Heart Children’s Home, Nelson works out silently. He hates acronyms. Whitcliffe, of course, loves them.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

“Everything changes, nothing perishes,”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone