As Good As Dead Quotes
"I didn’t make myself a public figure, Hawkins, that happened because I had to do your job for you."
"Sometimes, justice must be found outside of the law."
"This isn’t fine. I’m fine. She wasn’t fine, but that was the whole point."
"I think you might be seeing a pattern that isn’t here, and it’s completely understandable after everything you’ve been through."
"If anything, she found them annoying. But [...] looking back on those few weeks before, everything seems weird to me now, now that she’s gone."
"It’s scary, to know that someone might want to hurt you, or make you scared. You’re my person. My little one. My Sarge. And I’m supposed to protect you."
"You know brains always beat brawn, any day of the week."
"This is for me. This is what I’m good at. I can do this."
"It worked. Whatever Ravi was doing, it worked."
"He’s been in prison all this time, and there were no more murders after his arrest. The DT Killer is gone."
"Just one question between her and that long fall down: who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?"
"Otherwise – serious systemic failings in our criminal justice system."
"False confessions are a lot more common than you think."
"He wanted her to leave first, to watch her walk away."
"There was no good in him at all: no mistakes, no good intentions twisted, no redemption, nothing like that."
"And if Pip were the one to finally catch him, to free an innocent man, that would be an objectively good thing."
"Pip watched her as she wound her way politely through all the tables and people rammed into this small Starbucks, round the corner from Amersham station."
"She couldn’t help but notice how much Harriet looked like Julia Hunter had, before the DT Killer stole her face and wrapped it up in tape."
"Why was it that sisters looked so much alike when one of them was dead?"
"That must have been her, walking through the café door now, her head unsure upon her shoulders, swivelling this way and that."
"I saw him with Julia Hunter. I know it was her, 100%."
"This is just a practice, and maybe it will make me feel better, knowing that I could send this, even though I can’t."
"It was a slow, churning grey, and there were spots on the driveway from another bout of rain. Never mind, she liked running in the rain."
"She was going out for dinner with friends a lot around then, maybe that was code for something."
"Talking it through with myself, outside of my head."
"That’s the plan at least. I have no one to talk it through with, except myself, but it’s the best I can do."
"That’s why we were sort of primed and ready for some kind of insertion from the perpetrator."
"Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?"
"That’s why she died. She was trying to get away from you."
"It wasn’t an accident. I killed your dog, Pip."
"You were always the brave one. Meticulous, annoyingly so. Determined to the point of recklessness. You always had a plan, no matter what."
"You just need a new plan. That’s what you’re good at. You’re not going to die here. He’s gone, and now you have time. Use that time."
"Wouldn’t you like to see me again? See everyone you care about?"
"Because somewhere, in that intersection between shelf and pole, there had to be a screw, to hold them together. And a screw could be freedom."
"Hope discolouring some of the terror’s dark edges."
"Time didn’t wait for anybody and it definitely wouldn’t wait for her."
"It’s OK, Sarge. I’m not going anywhere. And neither are you."
"You can’t get seen on any traffic cams. Back roads only."
"You have to leave your phone at home. Look at the way on Google Maps now, but do not type Green Scene into your search browser, whatever you do. Just search on the map."
"I can’t lose you. That’s your whole life, Pip. Our whole life."
"This building must have once been a barn, Pip realized, staring up into its impossibly high ceiling."
"I think that's a shredder," she said. "Or a wood-chipper, whatever it's called. Branches go in and it shreds them to tiny little pieces."
"My DNA is all over this room," she said. "I'll take the duct tape with me, dispose of it with my clothes."
"You must have been so scared," he said quietly.
"We might actually do this. Play god. Bring a man back to life for a few hours, so another could kill him."
"I know things. How do you not know by now that I know things?"
"Maybe he was feeling tired, and as he felt sleep dragging him in, closer and closer, he’d tell himself he just needed to sleep it off."
"People always looked innocent when they slept; pure, removed from the world and its wrongs."
"This wasn’t just about her own survival; she knew herself well enough by now."
"One of them had to go, and Pip was going to give one hell of a fight."
"Everything was returning; that full circle, dragging them all back around again."
"Her parents were already in bed by the time Pip got home, waiting up for her."
"The end wasn’t in sight yet – this long night would be longer still – but she was past the middle of the plan, leaving the ticked boxes behind in the back of her mind."
"Because it meant she didn’t have to be afraid of him any more. She had won and he was dead, and the sight of it, the proof, that was her trophy, whether she wanted it or not."
"It sucks when someone puts something in your drink and then ruins your life, huh?"
"They walked towards Max’s car. Back out the waiting gates of Green Scene Ltd, those spiked metal posts like an open jaw, spitting them out as its body withered and burned."
"Because it was late at night, in that in-between time when too-late became too-early, and Pip Fitz-Amobi was dragging a dead body."
"She just had to wait, fight that impulse to know. It would get her caught."
"I promise I will find out what happened to Jason – who killed him."
"Except, that’s exactly what she was going to do."
"Interfere but don’t interfere too much. Guide, don’t lead."
"The police had their killer. They just had to know where to look for him."
"People talk, in a small town. And there’s been a lot of talk over the last week – the town is practically cracking open with whispered secrets and furtive glances."
"Cases in Little Kilton don’t seem to get solved until I get involved."
"I thought you could use some help on this case. Considering you needed me to solve two of your previous cases for you."
"I use them all the time, but I haven’t seen them lately – I don’t know, maybe a week or more."
"I’ve just been at the station, talking to Hawkins. I’ve just come from there."
"Bravery to the point of stupidity, that's you."
"I had to bare my teeth and see this through to the end."
"There's something very wrong with this town."
"A life, a real one, a normal one: it was still possible."
"One last fight, somewhere in the middle, and they had to win."
"It was over, she had won. Four against four and here she was, still standing."
"She knew what had to be done. But it might just kill her to do it."
"Maybe, just maybe, it would be something good."