J.D. Kirk > Quotes

“It couldn’t have been easy to walk through Sauchiehall Street after closing on a Saturday with some mouthy wee bam shouting, “Fuck me, is that no’ her out of Scooby-Doo?” at you at the top of his lungs.”
― J.D. Kirk, A Litter of Bones

“Fuck me. You hear that? The clang of that penny dropping?”
― J.D. Kirk, A Whisper of Sorrows

“Bloody hell, mate, what happened to you?” he yelped. “You look like Quasimodo fucked a Muppet.”
― J.D. Kirk, Come Hell or High Water

“He’d lost count of the number of grieving spouses, parents, or children whose final words with their loved ones had been in anger. He’d held mothers who wished, more than anything, they could take back the last thing they’d said to their child before they’d headed on a night out. He’d watched husbands break down, stricken by the lack of affection they’d shown their wives in those final days, haunted by some of the things they’d said or done.”
― J.D. Kirk, The Killing Code

“What is this?" Logan shrugged. So, that's how she wanted to play it. "This? This is where Mairi was murdered," Logan”
― J.D. Kirk, Thicker than Water

“Is there any Earl Grey?" he asked. Logan replied before Sinead could open her mouth. "No, there is not," he said. "You're on duty. You'll have proper tea. You can drink your bloody potpourri on your own time.”
― J.D. Kirk, Thicker than Water

“Hugh?" Logan said, tearing his eyes away from the scene in front of them.
Chief Inspector Pickering turned, a half-smile playing across his face. "Yes?"
"Gonnae shut the fuck up?"
"I'm sorry?"
"Seriously. If you are not muttering to yourself, you're making clicking noises with your tongue, or tapping your teeth, or some other bloody thing. Even your breathing is annoying me. I'm trying to concentrate here, and all I'm getting is-" Logan inhaled and exhaled deeply like he was trying to stop himself from hyperventilating. "It's like getting a dirty phone call from Darth Vader.”
― J.D. Kirk, Blood and Treachery

“And as for this lot, they’re no’ special forces. They’re no’ even special fucking needs,”
― J.D. Kirk, Westward

“What’s between ‘OK’ and ‘bearable’? Is there a word for that?” “Aye. ‘Marriage,’” Ben said.”
― J.D. Kirk, Blood and Treachery

“nettles he’d just waded through, at”
― J.D. Kirk, A Whisper of Sorrows

“The only thing constant in life is change. The only thing set in stone is that nothing is set in stone.”
― J.D. Kirk, An Isolated Incident

“In the olden days, if you liked a programme on the telly, it was an event. You watched it, then you waited until it was back on the following week, and you watched it again. Maybe you taped it on the video recorder, if you could figure it out. Whatever. There was an element of patience involved. A degree of bloody restraint.” Ben shook his head. His mouth was pulled up like he’d tasted something unpleasant. “Now, it’s all there on demand. It’s all now, now, now. People binge. I mean, what was wrong with just watching something? Why do folk have to binge”
― J.D. Kirk, The Big Man Upstairs

“He’d had a suspicion before. No, not a suspicion, a concern. A dread. A nagging fear that ate away at him some nights when he lay awake, and wormed its way into his nightmares while he slept. He had always dismissed it, pushed it away, beaten it down. It didn’t make sense. He refused to let it make sense. And yet, it did. Here, now, it was perhaps the only thing that did, and the realisation of that fact knocked the air from Logan’s lungs and threatened to bring him to his knees. Someone connected to the original case.”
― J.D. Kirk, A Litter of Bones

“Hoon ejected when Logan ducked into the hospital room. “If it’s no’ Mr Potato Head. Can I get an autograph? I fucking loved you in the Toy Story films!”
― J.D. Kirk, In Service of Death

“It’s like someone’s taken the heart right out of your chest, wrapped it in a blanket, and made you responsible for”
― J.D. Kirk, In Service of Death

“Shona shuffled up, yawning so widely her head looked like an egg from the Alien movies, getting ready to spit out a facehugger.”
― J.D. Kirk, A Rock and a Hard Place

“Logan stood with his back to the Big Board, looking out at the rest of the team. There were only the four of them, so it wasn't exactly a sea of faces. More of a puddle, really.”
― J.D. Kirk, Thicker than Water

“Or the last one that we know of. We think someone is trying to capitalize on Petrie’s—and I hesitate to use this word—‘fame.”
― J.D. Kirk, A Litter of Bones

“The head teacher, a prissy-looking man with burgundy trousers that immediately marked him out as a dyed-in-the-wool Tory voter,”
― J.D. Kirk, Thicker than Water

“priorities. If Freddie had broadcast it, like Damian claimed, someone—perhaps the woman herself—might”
― J.D. Kirk, A Snowball's Chance in Hell

“the camera at a press conference. “DCI Grimm. But aye. Also grim in the traditional sense.”
― J.D. Kirk, Come Hell or High Water

“I’ve got my best man working on it,” Hoon said. “And that’s no’ a compliment to him, by the way, it’s a criticism of everyone else I’ve ever worked with.”
― J.D. Kirk, Northwind

“hand on the old wood and kept it pressed there for a moment, like she was calming some skittish animal.”
― J.D. Kirk, Come Hell or High Water

“They exchanged something that was partway between a handshake and a hug, but neither one thing nor the other, then the DCI continued to his own room, dumped his bag inside, then had a thoroughly enjoyable piss that had been building since lunchtime.”
― J.D. Kirk, An Isolated Incident

“Nobody wants to disrupt the organised chaos of their own fucking lives. And he’s right. They’ll go out of their way no’ to go out of their fucking way.”
― J.D. Kirk, Westward

“Better a Christian than a bloody ghoul!" "Goth, Malcolm. Goth!”
― J.D. Kirk, Thicker than Water

“Berta says he fusses all over them when we’re not there. He’s building them a wee playpen thing.” A flicker of doubt crossed her face. “Although, he does keep calling it a baby jail.”
― J.D. Kirk, A Dead Man Walking

“I just can’t resist when I see one, though.” “I was going to say you’re such a child,” Logan told her. “But I’d have some serious welfare concerns about any child I saw waggling one of those big bastards around like you’ve been.”
― J.D. Kirk, Come Hell or High Water

“And that goes for any woman, by the way. That’s across the board advice. Mouth shut, do as you’re told, thank your lucky stars, and try no’ to fuck it up. Alright?”
― J.D. Kirk, The Killing Code

“Corey”
― J.D. Kirk, A Death Most Monumental