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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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 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

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

“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

“A general election had been called and they were in the pre-election period known as purdah”
― M.W. Craven, The Puppet Show

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

“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

“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

“I asked Grace why all our pictures of Jesus show him as a white man”
― M.W. Craven, The Mercy Chair

“The company who invented Bluetooth are Scandinavian and they thought it would be neat to name something that unites devices after the king who united their kingdoms.”
― M.W. Craven, The Cutting Season

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

“through it with a fine-tooth comb,”
― M.W. Craven, Fearless

“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

“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