David J. Gatward > Quotes

“Exactly,’ Matt agreed. ‘Daft really, isn’t it? I mean, you don’t sit at home and get up every five minutes to go and check if someone’s at your door, do you? So why do we feel the constant need to keep checking our phones?”
― David J. Gatward, Corpse Road

“And the loss of a pet was, to many, like losing one of the family.”
― David J. Gatward, Blood Sport

“Ancient drystone walls were laid across the fells like the thin threads of a giant web cast out by some massive, hidden arachnid.”
― David J. Gatward, Grimm Up North

“Influencers or whatever they're called, earning a living from being vacuous, shallow husks of humanity;”
― David J. Gatward, Dead Man's Hands

“But you’re the police, aren’t you?’ ‘Not all of it, no,’ Harry said.”
― David J. Gatward, Blood Trail

“a particularly well-gummed-up jar of Marmite.”
― David J. Gatward, Best Served Cold

“throw meat in pot, add veg, pour booze on it” really counts as a recipe.”
― David J. Gatward, Blood Trail

“It was because the place was just the same that made your absence seem a savage force, for under all the gentleness there came an earthquake tremor: fountain, bird and grass were shaken by my thinking of your name. (Elizabeth Jennings: Absence)”
― David J. Gatward, Restless Dead

“always keep an eye open for something that shouldn’t be there, but is, and something that should be, but isn’t.”
― David J. Gatward, Fair Game

“dogs are always alert to what their owners are doing. They may give you the impression of being asleep, but you move from your seat, close a book, lean forward, and they’re up on all fours, staring at you, their eyes saying, whatever it is, whatever you’re doing I’m IN!”
― David J. Gatward, Death's Requiem

“The new day had emerged from the storms of the days before like a turtle from its shell, the sun only just daring to peek through the clouds. The wind had calmed to a breeze, the air still damp, and the rivers were throwing themselves down the hills, pausing on the way to flood fields with great mirrors of fresh water. Rivulets cut across them, too, turning the vivid greens into the shattered remnants of a giant stained-glass window.”
― David J. Gatward, Blood Trail

“It wasn’t that he didn’t enjoy reading, just that he wasn’t in the habit of buying books. Or looking for books. Or thinking about them.”
― David J. Gatward, Shooting Season

“A person was a library of memories and dreams and experiences, an impossibly vast collection of all the things a life involved. Death swept that away with its cold, swift fire. No fanfare. No trumpets. Just death. She wasn’t one for deep philosophical discussions. However, to be so close to death, and so often, to be up close and intimate with those who had passed, often in the worst of circumstances, she just couldn’t see how this was all there was. There was too much to what made up everything a human was, for something to not go on after.”
― David J. Gatward, One Bad Turn

“Detective Chief Inspector Harry Grimm had a face on him that would shame a pug, if that pug had first been half beaten to death with a cricket bat and then chewed on enthusiastically by a hippo.”
― David J. Gatward, Grimm Up North

“But who really has a normal life? he thought. Everyone has their own traumas, their own histories, and learning to live with it was just a part of the everyday.”
― David J. Gatward, Unquiet Bones

“but the night was still clinging on, the darkness now the grubby grey of rainwater racing down a roadside.”
― David J. Gatward, Corpse Road

“The world was hunkering down for winter, pulling low blankets of fog over the hills and fields as protection from the cold.”
― David J. Gatward, Unquiet Bones

“Real life played by very different rules, and it wasn’t about to share them with anyone any time soon.”
― David J. Gatward, Blood Trail

“spent most of her free time keeping fit. ‘Hi,’ Harry said. ‘Good to meet you.’ ‘Well, that’s a face only a mother”
― David J. Gatward, Grimm Up North

“Here’s the thing,’ he said. ‘If you drop a pistol, right, it’s not just going to go off, despite what the movies and television want you to think. There’s a lot of moving parts in a weapon, and a jolt on the ground, well, that’s not going to be enough to set everything in motion for it to go off.”
― David J. Gatward, Bad Deeds

“Noting”
― David J. Gatward, One Bad Turn

“who”
― David J. Gatward, DCI Harry Grimm Crime Thrillers 10-12 Box Set

“But then what’s the point in being old and wise if you don’t spend a good bit of your life being young and stupid?”
― David J. Gatward, Dark Harvest

“I think it’s because Alison reported on Billy, the trial, everything,’ said Gordy. ‘She also sent me photos and video footage of her following someone in Shepton Mallet; that’s what she wanted to see me about when she turned up here, if you remember?”
― David J. Gatward, Hatchet Hill

“It’s my job to be bothered!’ the DSup snapped back. ‘I get paid to be the one you and everyone else bothers. It is what I am for, bothering. Just so long as you only do it when something is important. And this, I believe, is important, agreed?’ ‘Well, now that I know that, sir, I’ll make sure that I bother you as much as I can.”
― David J. Gatward, Corpse Road

“The Official DCI Harry Grimm Reader Group.”
― David J. Gatward, Ashes of Betrayal

“What was the point in making sure that everything was kept lovely and pretty if, in the end, no one could live there, get a job, set up a business, or bring up a family? Surprised by where his thoughts had wandered off to, Matt forced himself to focus, but it wasn’t easy. Usually, with any journey in the Dales, he would’ve spent a good amount of his time behind the wheel feeling like the luckiest man alive, and not just because he would’ve been thinking about his wife and child, either. No, because he would have been staring out at the world around him, as astonished as ever to be living somewhere so beautiful.”
― David J. Gatward, Stone Cold

“you are now under arrest for assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and throwing a bottle of good whisky at a wall!”
― David J. Gatward, Restless Dead

“he?”
― David J. Gatward, Hatchet Hill

“A person was a library of memories and dreams and experiences, an impossibly vast collection of all the things a life involved.”
― David J. Gatward, One Bad Turn