Anna Smith > Quotes

“my driver might be a thick bastard, but he never forgets a face. And he remembered your big Commie pal from Fuengirola, and spotted him the minute he drove past as you were in the bar here. That’s why you’re sitting there shitting yourselves and I’m enjoying a wee drink.’ ‘People know where I am,’ Rosie blurted out, aware of the quake in her voice. ‘They’ll be looking for me.’ ‘Aye, right. Tough shit. I’m sure they’ll find you eventually.’ He hung up.”
― Anna Smith, Betrayed

“I’m with my friend TJ. He came and got me and brought me to his flat. I was a bit shocked though, but I’m fine.’ There was a pause, and Rosie knew what was coming next.”
― Anna Smith, Screams in the Dark

“The old guy on the karaoke microphone was belting out the Sixties classic ‘King of the Road’. ‘Trailers for sale or rent, Rooms to let . . . fifty cents . . . I’m a man of means by no means . . . King of the road . . .”
― Anna Smith, The Hit

“my mum, who was my heart, who didn’t live to see this, but who will be forever on my shoulder, inspiring me.”
― Anna Smith, The Dead Won't Sleep

“Ethics is knowing what you have a right to do, and what is right to do’ Potter Stewart”
― Anna Smith, Kill Me Twice

“had read so many paper-backs she was having trouble working out what was real life and what was fiction.”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“Memories, light the corners of my mind, Misty water-coloured memories, of the way we were . . .’ Indeed, Rosie thought”
― Anna Smith, The Hit

“Sometimes, when we look back on a great day as a kid, I wonder was it really as perfect as that, or have I just made it that way in my head . . .”
― Anna Smith, Death Trap

“Rosie settled down and read over the newspapers she’d missed while she was away.”
― Anna Smith, Screams in the Dark

“Well, it’s hard to say how I am these days, and that’s the truth. I guess I’m still numb from my mother’s death. I still can’t quite believe I’ll never see her again. That’s the hardest part, suddenly thinking I’ll have to tell her something later, and then I remember she’s not there.”
― Anna Smith, Blood Feud

“Her eyes rested on the picture of Emir that Matt had taken at her flat”
― Anna Smith, Screams in the Dark

“started here. Helen walked back to her hotel slowly, enjoying the cool of the night and the beauty of Paris. The streets were busy, and even in the side street where she crossed to her hotel there were people in the pavement cafés. She toyed with the idea of having one for the road, but decided to call it a night. She had a flight to Grand”
― Anna Smith, The Hit

“their drinks and headed for the back room. It stank of beer and cigarettes. But at least it was empty, apart from the pool table and a few old-fashioned wooden chairs and three tables next to some wall seating. ‘That’s better.’ Rosie plonked herself on a chair, and they sat with their backs to the wall. She leaned across the table, looking from one to the other. ‘So. You were saying”
― Anna Smith, The Hit

“caballero” to the waiters. The last guy I saw doing that was Manolito in the High Chaparral.”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“A son is a son till he takes a wife, a daughter is a daughter the rest of her life … But sometimes is not the case.”
― Anna Smith, Screams in the Dark

“The stars shine only in darkness”
― Anna Smith, Fight Back

“Darkness was already coming down like a cloak on the deserted streets,”
― Anna Smith, The Hit

“You’ll be quoting from Braveheart next.’ ‘They can take our women! They can take our freedom, and our deep-fried Mars Bars! But they’ll never take our shitey weather,”
― Anna Smith, Betrayed

“Ali’s phone call to me three years ago changed my life and put me on the road to where I am now. For that I will always be grateful.”
― Anna Smith, Betrayed

“This is where I come from. And it’s where you come from. You’ll never get away from that, and don’t you forget it.”
― Anna Smith, The Hit

“Hard to hide a weapon after you’ve shot yourself in the head.”
― Anna Smith, The Hit

“Only do not forget, If I wake up crying it’s because in my dreams I’m a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands. Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets, XXI”
― Anna Smith, The Dead Won't Sleep

“Now Rosie smiled to herself as she gazed around her at the bustle of human traffic around the station, each person with their own story, their own dreams. She had done all right. She’d come a long way. Her mother and father would have been proud.”
― Anna Smith, A Cold Killing

“Deep down she approved of his kind of ‘an eye for an eye’ justice.”
― Anna Smith, The Hit

“I never forgot her, Father. I never forgot her for a day.”
― Anna Smith, The Dead Won't Sleep

“She raised her glass and thought of what Frankie had said that first night she met him and fell for him. ‘Not bad for a wee tart from the Gorbals.”
― Anna Smith, The Hit

“She just didn’t know who else to be other than the person she was right now,”
― Anna Smith, Screams in the Dark

“I’m really more of a Border collie woman, to be honest,”
― Anna Smith, The Dead Won't Sleep

“I’m too old to play hard to get,’ Marion said. ‘Somebody asks me out, I’m standing with my hat and coat on in case they change their mind!”
― Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky’ Rabindranath Tagore”
― Anna Smith, Rough Cut