Rhys Dylan > Quotes

“Mining communities stripped of their livelihood, chewed up by politicians and spat out to survive, fragmented and directionless. With no work for the younger generation, as one century died and another was born, the older people who’d been the community’s heart were abandoned with little or no support.”
― Rhys Dylan, A Mark of Imperfection

“But he’d never needed convincing how much a privilege it was to own a dog and have them let you be their reason for being.”
― Rhys Dylan, A Mark of Imperfection

“Keen, isn’t he?’ Gil said.
‘Mustard personified.”
― Rhys Dylan, Lines of Inquiry

“But we all know what happens when you try polishing a turd. It smells bad and it isn’t pretty.”
― Rhys Dylan, The Engine House

“The Lady Anwen thought it would be funny to give me a stuffed sheep wearing a jumper in the style of a stripy humbug last year. Baa‑humbug it’s called.”
― Rhys Dylan, No One Near

“Because I’ve met Mrs Thorley. And I’ve come across the name before when I worked in the Met. The DI I worked for was a curmudgeonly cove. When he didn’t want to be disturbed, he put a notice on the door. F.O.Y.N.W.’
‘What does it stand for?’
‘Fuck off, you’re not welcome.’
Next to him, Rhys let out a loud guffaw.
‘No red carpet, then, sir,’ Catrin said.”
― Rhys Dylan, A Body of Water

“More like a crock of S, H to the one, T, as my nephew would say.”
― Rhys Dylan, Ice Cold Malice

“The DC swung around to face his boss. ‘Gina bought me a gizmo, sir.’ He held up a tiny hourglass style sand‑timer in a reenforced metal cylinder attached to his keys. ‘Glow in the dark, sir. Never get the brew wrong with this.’Warlow nodded his approval. ‘She’s a keeper, that one.’
‘Actually, sir, she plays full back.’
Gil, who’d been arranging a plate of biscuits, stopped, and slowly turned his head to contemplate Rhys. ‘Arglwydd, be still my beating heart. Rhys has cracked a joke and by Grabjar’s Hammer, it’s one worthy of mirth.”
― Rhys Dylan, Lines of Inquiry

“Before you ask, I didn’t make those. They are my grandchildren’s work. The large, round, red blob with the black hat is me, apparently. Strangely, that figure appears, and in the same proportions, in all three of the girls’ art. Obviously, they all have the same defective vision. I’ve booked them an optician’s appointment for the new year.”
― Rhys Dylan, No One Near

“He simply did not know what to buy a forty-something-year-old woman without coming across as one of the three of the lesser known of Snow White’s companions: clueless, trite, or sleazy. And he hated the thought of a gift for a gift’s sake.”
― Rhys Dylan, No One Near

“Despite its love affair with the Sunday supplements as a destination town and one of Wales’s most desirable places to live, Llandeilo was an angina town: in desperate need of a bypass.”
― Rhys Dylan, A Body of Water

“But it isn’t just my parents,’ Rhys replied. ‘There’s my aunty and uncle and at least four cousins. I mean, it’s a proper circus, clowns included.”
― Rhys Dylan, No One Near

“I heard someone once say that their family was like a squirrel turd. Best avoided and full of nuts.”
― Rhys Dylan, One Less Snake

“Five minutes,’ Gina said. ‘And don’t put your white shirt on until you’ve eaten. I don’t know what your mother puts in her gravy, but we ought to paint it on bomb shelters because it would easily survive an atomic blast. It’s a sod to get out of any clothing.”
― Rhys Dylan, No One Near

“Unfortunately, the lights drew the attention of a reporter armed with what looked like a blow-dried rat on the end of a stick.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned

“And when I say ‘offish’, I don’t mean a place where Sean Connery did his accounts.”
― Rhys Dylan, A Mark of Imperfection

“Warlow took note. No hesitation there. Getting into a vehicle with two police officers had its own fear factor. But Finny showed no sign of reticence. That meant either he had nothing to hide, or he enjoyed double bluffing. Some of the worst recidivists he knew could lie through their teeth and swear that day was night”
― Rhys Dylan, A Body of Water

“Foxtrot, Foxtrot, Sierra.”
― Rhys Dylan, Lines of Inquiry

“The world was changing. Status and possessions were the idols that most people, young people especially, seemed to worship. A notion fed by the media in all its hydra-headed forms. But in his experience, most ordinary people retained core values. Honour, kindness, trust. Pillars on which to build a family and life. Preserving those pillars was what got him up in the morning.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned

“smiles. ‘Good. Anything useful”
― Rhys Dylan, A Body of Water

“In this line of work, it was easy to forget the living in pursuit of justice for the dead.”
― Rhys Dylan, A Word With The Dead

“Nothing the old brain loves more than a good three a.m. disaster party – worst-case scenarios only, of course,”
― Rhys Dylan, DRUID'S MOOR: A DCI Evan Warlow Novel

“process”
― Rhys Dylan, A Mark of Imperfection

“Life, as they say, is for the living. And death is bloody inconvenient.”
― Rhys Dylan, The Engine House

“She’s smart, ma’am. I’m sure it’ll be a piece of… yellow liquid.”
― Rhys Dylan, A Matter of Evidence

“in the darkest stretches of the long night.”
― Rhys Dylan, Burnt Echo

“Why was it that management, bad management anyway, always felt the need to state the bloody obvious and get everyone’s goat in the process?”
― Rhys Dylan, The Light Remains

“Keep that anecdote to yourself, or certainly away from Sergeant Jones. Tea bags and wide‑opened mouths provide a lot of scope for misinterpretation.”
― Rhys Dylan, A Matter of Evidence

“Warlow believes most families should have a dog. It teaches the kids discipline and responsibility and how to deal with death. One of life’s great cosmic jokes was giving dogs such a short lifespan.”
― Rhys Dylan, The Engine House

“The sun, dipping lower, now cast long shadows on the west of all the buildings in the yard.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned