M.W. Craven > Quotes

“She’s my friend. And trust me when I say this, I don’t have many.”
― M.W. Craven, The Botanist

“Poe stood still and tried to untangle his mind. None of it felt right, some of the evidence contradicted other evidence-it was like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube that fought back.”
― M.W. Craven, The Curator

“The door to the mortuary had a piece of A4 paper Sellotaped to the frosted glass. It said: ‘Pathologists have the coolest patients”
― M.W. Craven, Black Summer

“lettuce he’d bought in a moment of ill-advised optimism. A bit of cheese so mouldy it was a short evolutionary jump away from developing lungs.”
― M.W. Craven, Cut Short

“Would I be right in saying that a Venn diagram of the people you know and the people you’ve upset would closely intersect?’ Flynn snorted. ‘A Venn diagram of the people Poe knows and the people he’s upset would be a fucking circle.”
― M.W. Craven, The Curator

“But the thing about plans is that they can turn into a bag of turds in the blink of an eye.”
― M.W. Craven, Black Summer

“And each time you stood near one of your colleagues, we hacked their phone too. It’s like a highly contagious electronic disease. A virus. Except this time a vaccine won’t be able to help you.”
― M.W. Craven, The Cutting Season

“Some sins can never be washed clean,’ he said. ‘He has to die.”
― M.W. Craven, Dead Ground

“he had all the charm of an East German border guard.”
― M. W. Craven, The Puppet Show

“The difference between a thing and a weapon was intent, the instructor had told them. He’d explained that when the police began”
― M.W. Craven, The Curator

“As someone once said, no plan survives contact with the enemy.”
― M.W. Craven, The Cutting Season

“Thinking you know what's happening is the surest sign you don't.”
― M.W. Craven, Black Summer

“It’s funny, Poe,’ she said, ‘but you don’t realise how many people you hate until you have to name a baby.”
― M.W. Craven, The Curator

“I believe that when selecting victims, the administrator will have looked for four preconditions: bad life experiences, unwanted isolation, depression and a borderline personality disorder.”
― M.W. Craven, The Curator

“Did you know that the nose is the only organ that can see into the past, Poe?’ Bradshaw said. ‘Smell is retrospective. It’s already happened.”
― M.W. Craven, Cut Short

“When you didn’t care about your job, the people in authority quickly realised just how little power they had.”
― M. W. Craven, The Puppet Show

“So, to sum up, King Harald Bluetooth united the tribes and formed the Kingdom of Denmark,’ Poe said. ‘And your point is …?’ Fatty Scraps said. ‘My point is that when the company who invented Bluetooth needed a name for technology that unites electronic devices, they thought of the king who united the tribes,’ Poe explained. ‘The Bluetooth logo is King Harald’s joined-up initials in ancient Viking.”
― M.W. Craven, The Cutting Season

“the FBI will find that you and Hobbs have killed more people than Jack Reacher.”
― M.W. Craven, Nobody's Hero

“How big would the tidal wave be if everyone in the world went to the same place at the same time and jumped up and down?”
― M.W. Craven, The Cutting Season

“the human brain isn’t equipped to move from a mind’s eye picture to an accurate verbal description.”
― M.W. Craven, The Curator

“She explained the science in the way only Bradshaw could: she made something complicated sound even more complicated.”
― M.W. Craven, The Final Vow

“What the hell’s semiotic studies?’ Poe said. ‘It’s the pseudo-science that claims to interpret signs and symbols,”
― M.W. Craven, The Curator

“Doctor Lang said. ‘I think”
― M.W. Craven, The Mercy Chair

“Asteroids rise, not meteors. Meteors enter our atmosphere when crash to earth in a fiery ball" As far as he could remember, that was the first time he'd ever used some of Bradshaw's trivia”
― M.W. Craven, Black Summer

“Signal's gone," Bradshaw said, waving her phone in the air.
She raised her hand. A waiter approached their table. "Do you have the Wi-Fi code, please ?"
"Madam, this is a Michelin starred restaurant."
"Is that all lower case ?”
― M.W. Craven, Black Summer

“A motorbike without an engine is as much use as a waterproof teabag.”
― M.W. Craven, The Cutting Season

“No, gracias, Poe —dijo ella—. Varios estudios han demostrado que los frutos secos que sirven en los bares contienen hasta cien especímenes distintos de orina. Poe dejó de masticar. Escupió en su pañuelo lo que no había tragado.”
― M. W. Craven

“tradition was just peer pressure from dead people.”
― M.W. Craven, The Mercy Chair

“It's been too easy," Poe said.
"Easy ?" Nightingale replied. "This has been the most challenging case I've ever worked.”
― M.W. Craven, The Curator

“Winter was the comma in the year. It stripped the land of colour and joy but without it there would be no spring – the plants and trees needed time to rest.”
― M.W. Craven, The Curator