Ann Cleeves Quotes

And once the others started shouting too, she stopped speaking and just watched. Pleased, as if it was what she had wanted all the time. That hate spreading like a wild fire on the hill.' A pause. 'It was as if she was drunk on the power. ~ Cleeves Ann

I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved. ~ Ann Cleeves

the hugeness of the world was a pool to dive into, not somewhere to drown. ~ Ann Cleeves

I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about. ~ Ann Cleeves

She'd learned that it was important when you were dealing with professional do-gooders to keep calm. Otherwise they judged you. Wrote things like anger-management problems in their reports. ~ Ann Cleeves

'Shetland' is adapted from the novel 'Red Bones.' The book is based around an archaeological dig, and the mystery starts with the murder of the elderly woman who crofts the land where the dig is happening. ~ Ann Cleeves

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place. ~ Ann Cleeves

Not unless he crossed the line.' Holly supposed she should let this go, but she was tired of Vera's bullying. 'Ah, that line . . .' Vera leaned back in her chair with her eyes half-closed. 'If only we knew exactly where it was.' There ~ Ann Cleeves

Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland. ~ Ann Cleeves

My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read ... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion. ~ Ann Cleeves

Vera watched him walk to his car, the champagne in one hand, the flowers in the other. Thought that if she'd been married to someone like Joe Ashworth, she'd be so bored she'd commit murder herself. ~ Ann Cleeves

It was precisely midnight when he stepped through the door. Taylor had said he wanted everyone in the Incident Room an hour before first light the next day, but Perez wasn't ready for sleep. As he switched on the kettle to make tea, he remembered he hadn't eaten since lunchtime and stuck sliced bread under the grill, fished margarine and marmalade from the fridge. He'd have breakfast now, save time in the morning. ~ Ann Cleeves

The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance. ~ Ann Cleeves

Was it only possible truly to enjoy something if you knew there was a danger that it might be taken away? ~ Ann Cleeves

I don't understand how anyone can write if they don't use public transport. I earwig all the time. ~ Ann Cleeves

Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose. ~ Ann Cleeves

In theory Vera liked strong women; in practice they often irritated her. ~ Ann Cleeves

Rather than the grey and dreary institutions of public perception, these should be places of innovation and experiment, where readers can take a chance on a book, pick one because they like the look of the cover or the title or because they see it returned by the gorgeous young man who lives in their street. After all, they will have absolutely nothing to lose. The book will be free. ~ Ann Cleeves

They think of themselves as your grandparents,' he said. But call them whatever you like. James and Mary? ~ Ann Cleeves

His thoughts were wheeling and dipping like the gulls over the estuary, groping for an explanation, feeling at last he was making sense of what lie behind Walden's death... ~ Ann Cleeves

I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be. ~ Ann Cleeves

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. ~ Ann Hood

I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner. ~ Ann Hood

But in my heart, especially given the past few days, I knew ... ~ Deborah Ann

Guess it'll be Rory then." Great. More females she'd have to kick out on a daily basis, no matter how many times the man promised the latest one-night stand was the last. "He won't mind."
"I bet he won't," Van Holtz muttered, slamming his own plate of cake down as he sat cattycorner from her.
"Is there a problem?" she asked.
"No. Not at all. Crash at Reed's, if that's what you want. Hope you two are very happy together."
"Just because I'm crashing at Rory's place don't mean we're doing anything together ... and why am I explaining this to you?"
He stared at her and asked, "Why do you think?"
Dee thought about it a minute. "You're interested in Rory Lee?" Ric lowered his head, his eyes shifting from human to wolf. They were blue when wolf. Like an Arctic wolf's. "You cannot be that clueless, Dee-Ann. ~ Shelly Laurenston

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up. ~ Ann Wilson

My taste in both is pretty eclectic. I do encourage people to try new and different kinds of tea if they can - there are so many different sorts, and so many, flavored or not, and there's bound to be something you like. The same with choral music, really. ~ Ann Leckie

Anne Hathaway
The bed we loved in was a spinning world
of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas
where we would dive for pearls. My lover's words
were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses
on these lips; my body now a softer rhyme
to his, now echo, assonance; his touch
a verb dancing in the centre of a noun.
Some nights, I dreamed he'd written me, the bed
a page beneath his writer's hands. Romance
and drama played by touch, by scent, by taste.
In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on,
dribbling their prose. My living laughing love -
I hold him in the casket of my widow's head
as he held me upon that next best bed. ~ Carol Ann Duffy

I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair ~ Jayne Ann Krentz

He was a shadow man, fighting to survive in a world that was never made for him. ~ Ann Rule

Blayne turned her head to look at Gwen, but caught sight of Dee-Ann standing behind them.
"Ahh! Where the hell did you come from?"
"Momma says from the love she shares with my daddy," Dee calmly replied. ~ Shelly Laurenston

True saints know that the place where all the joy comes from is far deeper than that of feelings; joy comes from the place of the very presence of God. Joy is God and God is joy and joy doesn't negate all other emotions - joy transcends all other emotions. ~ Ann Voskamp

If you want to be accepted, accept yourself and what you have. Not what you think you feel and what you want. Accept your situation. Accept yourself physically. ~ Ann Marie Aguilar

She reaches for me then, angry in her tenderness as only Dina can be. Not as a navigator, you dumb bitch. ~ Ann Aguirre

He might kiss like a damn sex god and rev her engine like no other, but he clearly wasn't for her. ~ Carrie Ann Ryan

The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is 'political fiction.' ~ Ann McLane Kuster

Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores. ~ Ann Patchett

She was his wife in every way that mattered and that would save her. ~ Ann Patchett

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods. ~ Ann Richards

I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time. ~ Ann Coulter

He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met. ~ Ann Aguirre

I really loved this book. I did for a school book report last year and I really got into it I just couldnt take my eyes of! You really absolutley need to read this book! ~ Ann M. Martin

If', it's a little word, but casts an awfully big shadow. ~ Terri Ann Armstrong

I was surrounded by ripples and cascades of Light, rising and falling all around me, like immense waves in the middle of a huge ocean. I was a tiny girl-child, newborn. ~ Cristael Ann Bengtson

Far outside the city the tree frogs were calling her, and the deep, rhythmic pulse of their voices set the blood flow to her heart. ~ Ann Patchett

People forget years and remember moments. ~ Ann Beattie

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to. ~ Ann Aguirre

I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I know I am. Perhaps tomorrow I will become entirely miserable at the thought that he doesn't love me back - may, even, care for Remy- but at this precise moment I am succumbing to euphoria. My head and stomach feel quite odd. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer

JLo and I did not get along well when we worked together. I don't think there's love lost. I don't know if there was a lot of love from the very beginning. ~ Carrie Ann Inaba

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant - a seed - this plants the giant miracle. ~ Ann Voskamp

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest. ~ Ann Bridge

A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion. ~ Ann Dunham

I'm s-scared to death. ~ Julie Ann Walker

Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart. ~ Ann Brashares

What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected? ~ Leigh Ann Henion

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right. ~ Ann Brashares

He did not abandon you in the ultimate storm of your soul. He will not abandon you in the immediate storm of your now. ~ Ann Voskamp

Strange, how equally important, just different always seemed to translate into some "equally important" roles being more worthy of respect and reward than others. ~ Ann Leckie

You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration. ~ Ann Cotton

To receive God's gifts, to live exalted and joy filled, isn't a function of straining higher, harder, doing more, carrying long the burdens of the super-Pharisees or ultra-saints. Receiving God's gifts is a gentle, simple movement of stooping lower. ~ Ann Voskamp

Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust. ~ Ann Rule

I thought I was in love (that's the pathetic part - my idea of being in love). ~ Mary Ann Shaffer

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth. ~ Ann Richards

You don't forget nightmares, but when they've been exposed to enough sunlight, they fade. ~ Jayne Ann Krentz

[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills. ~ Ann Coulter

I couldn't get you out of my head after we met. I told myself it was the novely of an innocent Neph girl, but it was more than that. You see the best in everyone." He paused to kiss my earlobe. "You drove me mad that trip, little Ann. I'd never been more terrified of my own self than I was when I realized I fancied you. And then you gave me that homeless woman all of your money in Hollywood, and that was it. I was done. ~ Wendy Higgins

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

All right, my lovely Sienna. I've waited for eight months; I can wait a little more. I'll wait until you are ready, but I want to make something clear, I don't just want your for your body.... when you're mine, I want your all; your body, your soul, your mind. I will consume you. I'll be your world and in return, I'll worship the ground you walk on and make you a very happy woman. ~ Pamela Ann