Charlotte

“I think it's true that at least one of the reasons for the rise in sex crimes is the increase in stimulation — and that includes fashion, pornography, advertising, films, TV, the lot.'

'And who determines women's fashions?'

'Mostly men, I should imagine.'

'That's right. You dress us the way you want us, you create us in the image you desire, and then you have the gall to accuse us of asking for it.”
― Peter Robinson, Gallows View

“Welshmen weren’t born to be right. They were born to be bloody tragic.”
― Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman

“The obituary seemed like a washing of the body. It cleaned Steen up. The existence of the photographs, all the sordid aspects of the man's life were rinsed away by the formalised prose. The Western ritual of death was observed — the obligation to remember the most dignified image of the deceased. Like those ghastly American mausoleums where the embalmed corpse is presented at its best, dressed and smiling, prior to burial.”
― Simon Brett, Cast, in Order of Disappearance