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Louise quotes Flashcards

(88 cards)

1
Q

Finally escaped

A

the breakfast table

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2
Q

An avoidance

A

of the inevitable return home

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3
Q

She had married the right man,

A

it was just that she was the wrong woman

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4
Q

She wanted to give in,

A

leave the battlefield

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5
Q

I can’t

A

do relationships

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6
Q

Reggie was sixteen

A

and could have passed for twelve.

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7
Q

Sometimes she wondered is she was

A

invisible

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8
Q

It was very easy to

A

slip between the cracks, especially if you were small

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9
Q

She didn’t want Dr Hunter to

A

think of her as anything but heroically, cheerfully competent.

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10
Q

Reggie leaped

A

instinctively to her feet

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11
Q

What did he mean she’d

A

gone away? Gone away? Gone away where? And why?

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12
Q

Tossed

A

restlessly

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13
Q

so-called

A

aunt

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14
Q

You gave him

A

a chance

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15
Q

Sprawled out

A

on his back

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16
Q

the wrong

A

train

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17
Q

Not dead, not yet.

A

Not exactly alive though.

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18
Q

You can’t

A

fight a train crash

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19
Q

Something had

A

happened to Dr Hunter.

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20
Q

over-excited

A

imagination

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21
Q

stain that was

A

blood

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22
Q

Had rung the doorbell and

A

Needler had opened the door and shot him in the chest

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23
Q

Victims faded,

A

murderers loved on in the memory. Only the police kept the eternal flame alight.

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24
Q

Clever and

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funny and surprising

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25
thirty
years later
26
Edinburgh medical student,
holding aloft a trophy
27
slammed the heel of her hand
upwards into Peter’s windpipe as hard as she could
28
Common
carotid artery
29
her
lifeline
30
Run,
Joanna run
31
Their father
(‘the bastard’)
32
Joseph was nothing yet
He was just a baby, fat and happy.
33
He was making a funny,
huffing, puffing noise.
34
the great silver knife
carving through her heart as if it was slicing butcher’s meat
35
Run,
Joanna, run
36
the thing that drove her to distraction
was that she couldn’t remember what the dog was called. And there was no one left to ask.
37
scope
out the village hid studied
38
He liked male
paraphernalia- cars, knives, gadgets, watches
39
third-floor
shoebox
40
runty
brother
41
Dr Hunter saw
the potential for sadness everywhere
42
He was on the
road to nowhere
43
absurd wrestling
match
44
being police was just
the obverse of being criminal, after all
45
It’s my job
to be obsessed.
46
He hadn’t caught the train to King’s Cross, he had
caught the train from King’s Cross
47
He was going the
wrong way
48
Her brain started to be nibbled at
by her crabby tumour
49
Alison’s nerves were tuned
as tight as piano wires twenty-four hours a day
50
Her life was
a train wreck
51
plenty of life left
for him to live
52
always the purveyor of bad news,
like some dark messenger angel
53
Unicorn
Magic-themed birthday party
54
you had to watch
out for the ordinary ones
55
Reggie Chase, as small as a mouse, as
quiet as a house with no one home
56
She could see the bottom
of her wine glass already
57
‘Hello, soldier’
the nurse said
58
A coincidence is just
an explanation waiting to happen
59
Heart clubs, diamonds
spades, warrant. Trumps.
60
London
Marathon
61
This is my life, it said, this is me.
No longer a victim.
62
Where was the
third suit?
63
It belonged with the baby. The baby belonged with
Dr Hunter. The dog belonged with Dr Hunter. Reggie belonged with Dr Hunter. It was all wrong.
64
Who could remember one of
the Yorkshire Ripper’s victims
65
‘The bad man is locked away for ever darling’
Not forever, it turned out, just thirty years
66
she was chronically
camera-shy
67
He was a detective. Used to be.
Detectives knew how to find people. People who were missing.
68
‘So you used to find people?’
‘Sometimes. I also lost people.’
69
‘There is no aunt’
‘Interesting. It’s like something out of Agatha Christie.’
70
‘You’ve comitted a crime, several crimes actually.’
‘You haven’t arrested me’ ‘Not yet’
71
The girl was a
terrier
72
Not so much a Madonna as
a great dark avenging angel
73
The baby woke up
and laughed when he saw her
74
‘Just tell me, has she been
kidnapped, yes or no?’
75
She had wanted to be in
there at the kill
76
She wanted to have torn
him apart with her bare hands, like a crazed Maenad
77
No sign of
Tessa
78
He had fallen
like the biggest fool ever
79
willed Jackson
to come back
80
I am not pregnant.
But hey
81
Louise supposed she could have pushed it,
found some forensic evidence somewhere
82
Maybe you could have broken
her if you had really wanted to
83
Anderson came up
smelling of roses
84
Louise would opt for Joanna Hunter to be
fighting on her side.
85
It was the easy
way out
86
Call me
Louise.
87
She tucked all the little plastic bags of heroin
[…] into the coffin with Ms MacDonald.
88
The Co-op
undertaker