The Chalk Pit
Elly Griffiths
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Libraries are the cathedrals of the modern age. All that knowledge, available for anyone to use. It’s quite a subversive thought.”
“Does the world really need another long essay on environmental archaeology and freshwater mollusks? Well, it's going to get one, whether it likes it or not.”
“She’s unmarried but, as she confided early on to Judy, ‘not short of offers’. Nelson often thinks that Jo is not nearly as attractive as she thinks she is but, as with all these things, her insane self-belief rubs off on others, and after a week King’s Lynn police were treating her as if she were Helen of Troy. Her technique is divide and rule.”
“Ruth isn’t going to be bossed about by a woman in tight trousers who thinks she’s Helen Mirren playing Jane Tennison. She”
“We’ll have to see if CSI picked up anything from the scene,’ says Nelson. ‘Are they finished?’ ‘Yes,’ says Tanya. ‘Shall I liaise with them?’ Tanya loves liaising, it sounds so much more important than keeping in touch. ‘If”
“Yes. It’s been on the news a lot with that other hole”
“What’s worse, dying of radiation poisoning or being trapped thirty metres underground with a bunch of politicians?’ ‘Someone was telling me about billionaire bunkers the other day. Where the super-rich burrow down to escape nuclear war. Imagine crawling to the surface to find that the only other people to have survived are millionaire arms dealers. Them and the cockroaches.”
“There’s an underground cathedral in South America, isn’t there?’ says Ruth. ‘I was reading about it recently. Isn’t it in an abandoned salt mine?’ ‘Yes, the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá,”
“There are subterranean communities all over the world, in catacombs, sewers and abandoned metros. The Tunnel People in Las Vegas, the Empire of the Dead in Paris, the Rat Tribe in Beijing.”
“It’s so thin, the line between respectability and chaos.”
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