The Bullet That Missed Quotes
"I’ve earned this face, it tells a story."
"Not everyone has to be beautiful."
"Sometimes in life you simply have to be patient."
"You should judge news presenters on their journalism, and not their appearance."
"Everyone wants to feel special, but nobody wants to feel different."
"Routine is the spy’s greatest enemy. Never travel the same route two days in a row."
"Life is a miracle."
"The Thursday Murder Club brought him Donna, Donna brought him Patrice, Patrice brought him stir-fried tofu. And all of that, it turns out, brought him happiness."
"The real memories are never the ones that make the highlights reel."
"But what if she really were to die? What then? What then for Stephen?"
"The moon is high and full, and pale light zigzags through winter’s bare branches above them."
"But you don’t always find things in the most obvious place, do you?"
"They cannot stand a closed door."
"A gun, a pen, some lipstick and a crossword book. Just like the good old days." - Elizabeth
"The bad news is that means, at some point, you are going to have to come to terms with everything you’ve done in your life." - Ibrahim
"Cryptocurrency is the Viking’s business? That’s the story here?" - Andrew Everton
"A hidden message, artfully concealed." - Ibrahim
"My heart needs to reel like the eagles at wing. It wants to be heard, like the blackbirds that sing." - Excerpt from Heather Garbutt's poem
"People are much more impressed when you’re on TV than when you’re catching criminals." - Donna De Freitas
"Reality is for civilians." - The Viking
"If life ever seems too complicated, if you think no one can help, sometimes the right person to turn to is an eight-year-old." - Ibrahim
"How many 'verys' turn 'like' into 'love'? Four? Five?" - Bogdan
"The real secret was to dig back in time, to follow the money back and back and back to try to find the original sin." - Narrator
"No one is all right. You’re OK." - Bogdan
"Some things we remember, Stephen, and some things we forget." - Bogdan
"One day it will be very important, but today it is the Wild West."
"Each time he killed, Gerry Meadowcroft lost a piece of his soul."
"Mike was real, Mike was authentic, and if some twenty-somethings from London with fashionable hair and trainers couldn’t see that, the problem was not with Mike, it was with them."
"Cop, crime writer, master criminal. I imagine the skills overlap somewhat?" - Yuri (Viktor's associate")"
"Here’s the basic rule: if I’m up for an award, I want you to be there—unless you’re catching a murderer by livestreaming a confession from the Instagram account of a famous television presenter. Then you’re excused."
"Greed, that was the thing. The fatal flaw."
"Actually, it was greed and being too clever. The two fatal flaws."
"Life was not a book."
"So many bodies and he had only murdered one of them."
"It’s the people, in the end, isn’t it? It’s always the people."
"You keep swimming, Joyce. You keep swimming, my beautiful friend. You keep your head above the water for as long as you can."