Damien Boyd > Quotes

“Then he watched Tam disappear through a gap in the hedge and sprint off across the field. Lock keeper on your tail again, is it?”
― Damien Boyd, Dead Lock

“Truth is honey to the lips, Poison to the ears”
― Damien Boyd

“It had been an early start. Dawn and dusk had always been the best times to catch pike but these days it was a rare occasion when he got out of bed much before 9.00am at the weekend. This morning his alarm had gone off at 5.00am. It was still dark. He had made a thermos flask of coffee and had stopped at the petrol station to get some sandwiches and chocolate. He had put his fishing tackle in the car the night before and had arrived at Gold Corner Pumping Station before sunrise.”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies

“Have you ever been caving before?”
― Damien Boyd, Death Sentence

“You know he was dealing drugs?’ asked Hunter. ‘Yes, small time, I’m told.’ ‘I wonder whether that could be related though, if he was murdered, that is?’ ‘It’s certainly one line of enquiry but we have several at the moment and, as I say, I have no real evidence that he was murdered. All I have is the knowledge that his knot wouldn’t just untie itself.’ Hunter agreed to”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies

“Louise is on her way, Ma’am,’ said Jane, dropping her phone back into her handbag.”
― Damien Boyd, Dead Lock

“Police Constable Nigel Cole dropped the handset into the lap of PC Sandra MacIntyre, who had managed to sleep through the entire radio exchange as well as the squawking of the crows.”
― Damien Boyd, Dead Lock

“Very few people had understood his decision to leave the Metropolitan Police and join the Avon and Somerset force but Nick Dixon had never regretted it for a minute. Walking along the base of the cliffs at Brean Down on a gloriously sunny morning in early autumn, he was reminded more than ever that it had been the right decision. There was not a soul around, the tide was out and the wet sand glistened in the low morning sun.”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies

“sceptical, to be honest, but Pearson said he might be of some use and managed to persuade the SIO at the time.”
― Damien Boyd, Heads or Tails

“Friend 2 low down in the flared crack and an RP2 higher up, the last before the crux twenty feet above. He was determined that this would be a clean first ascent. The route offered a long fall onto precious little gear but there”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies

“seconds.”
― Damien Boyd, Dead Level

“We always used to use a reef knot with a half hitch either side. The more you pull on it, the tighter it gets. If he’d abseiled over High Rock then there is no way that knot could or should have come undone.’ ‘Exactly,”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies

“but she was sure as hell testing her nausea”
― Damien Boyd, Death Message

“I know that,’ said Hatton. ‘We just need to be careful”
― Damien Boyd, Swansong

“beaten-up old Land Rover,”
― Damien Boyd, From the Ashes

“Certainly not. I’ve never done anything like that.’ ‘What about your results?’ ‘We may not”
― Damien Boyd, Kickback

“said”
― Damien Boyd, Dead Lock

“behind. ‘Did you enjoy that?’ asked Phillips.”
― Damien Boyd, Swansong

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
― Damien Boyd, Dead Level

“About the Author Prologue As the Crow Flies; E7 6c 130 ft; A direct finish to the classic Crow (E3 5c/6a***).”
― Damien Boyd, As the Crow Flies

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― Damien Boyd

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― Damien Boyd, Carnival Blues

“wound down the passenger window. She”
― Damien Boyd, Dead Level

“With Evie, yeah.’ Dixon”
― Damien Boyd, Death Message

“under”
― Damien Boyd, Dead Level

“but there”
― Damien Boyd, Dying Inside

“him up. Just”
― Damien Boyd, Kickback

“Dixon never understood why crematoriums all looked the same. He had been to any number of funerals over the years and Weston-super-Mare crematorium was just like any other.”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies

“enamel with a screw top. ‘We can’t risk it tipping over if we”
― Damien Boyd, Down Among the Dead

“at”
― Damien Boyd, Heads or Tails