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Top 25 Ann Cleeves Quotes (2024 Update)

Ann Cleeves Quote: “We don’t often notice the people who look after us, do we? Though we’d miss them if they weren’t there.”

1. “We don’t often notice the people who look after us, do we? Though we’d miss them if they weren’t there.”

— Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves Quote: “Oh, I’m interested in everything, Joe. That’s why I’m a bloody brilliant detective.’ She gave him her widest smile. ‘That’s why I’m in charge and you’re sitting there, doing as you’re told.”

2. “Oh, I’m interested in everything, Joe. That’s why I’m a bloody brilliant detective.’ She gave him her widest smile. ‘That’s why I’m in charge and you’re sitting there, doing as you’re told.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “But she thought the men’s brains had turned to jelly. They couldn’t see straight. Faced with a pretty woman they all seemed to lose their reason.”

5. “But she thought the men’s brains had turned to jelly. They couldn’t see straight. Faced with a pretty woman they all seemed to lose their reason.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “I don’t understand how anyone can write if they don’t use public transport. I earwig all the time.”

6. “I don’t understand how anyone can write if they don’t use public transport. I earwig all the time.”

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

7. “Was it only possible truly to enjoy something if you knew there was a danger that it might be taken away?”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “In theory Vera liked strong women; in practice they often irritated her.”

8. “In theory Vera liked strong women; in practice they often irritated her.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “They think of themselves as your grandparents,’ he said. But call them whatever you like. James and Mary?”

9. “They think of themselves as your grandparents,’ he said. But call them whatever you like. James and Mary?”

— Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves Quote: “The ritual of tea, Willow thought, is like a liturgy itself, comforting because it’s so familiar.”

10. “The ritual of tea, Willow thought, is like a liturgy itself, comforting because it’s so familiar.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Ann Cleeves Quote: “Vera thought for a moment that she might have found a man if she’d scrubbed up a bit better, then decided that no man was worth the time it took to plaster stuff on your face in the morning, when you could have an extra cup of tea instead.”

12. “Vera thought for a moment that she might have found a man if she’d scrubbed up a bit better, then decided that no man was worth the time it took to plaster stuff on your face in the morning, when you could have an extra cup of tea instead.”

— Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves Quote: “Anna opened her eyes and saw a pair of hands, streaked and shiny with blood. No face.”

13. “Anna opened her eyes and saw a pair of hands, streaked and shiny with blood. No face.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “It was much more organized than he would have expected, for a lad with a temper who’d been on the fringes of criminal activity since he was a boy. It came to Joe that perhaps Keane had needed order, to be in control, and the anger came out of chaos and situations he couldn’t handle. Three young kids and a flaky wife might do that to you. For the first time, he felt some sympathy for the dead man.”

14. “It was much more organized than he would have expected, for a lad with a temper who’d been on the fringes of criminal activity since he was a boy. It came to Joe that perhaps Keane had needed order, to be in control, and the anger came out of chaos and situations he couldn’t handle. Three young kids and a flaky wife might do that to you. For the first time, he felt some sympathy for the dead man.”

— Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves Quote: “When Fran had died and people had shared their own stories of grieving he’d wanted to hit them, to scream, I don’t care if someone close to you died. Don’t use my tragedy to wallow in your own. You cannot come close to knowing how I feel.”

15. “When Fran had died and people had shared their own stories of grieving he’d wanted to hit them, to scream, I don’t care if someone close to you died. Don’t use my tragedy to wallow in your own. You cannot come close to knowing how I feel.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “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...”

16. “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...”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “He was never very good at talking about feelings. He’d been on his own for so long that it was as if he’d had to learn a new language.”

17. “He was never very good at talking about feelings. He’d been on his own for so long that it was as if he’d had to learn a new language.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “We were never soulmates, you know. We never lived in each other’s pockets. But in a way, that was why it worked. We were so different that we learned from each other, there was something new to discuss when we did come together. But.”

18. “We were never soulmates, you know. We never lived in each other’s pockets. But in a way, that was why it worked. We were so different that we learned from each other, there was something new to discuss when we did come together. But.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “Don’t be daft, lad. I’ve worked with more loonies than you’ve had hot dinners. And I don’t just mean the offenders.”

19. “Don’t be daft, lad. I’ve worked with more loonies than you’ve had hot dinners. And I don’t just mean the offenders.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “You never answered back?”

20. “You never answered back?”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “I find it difficult to sleep. A sort of daydream, perhaps, reliving old times, trying to capture something of her, while there’s still a flavour of her in the house. It’s real, you know. A perfume. The shampoo she used, I think. Something else I can’t pin down. I know it won’t last for long.”

21. “I find it difficult to sleep. A sort of daydream, perhaps, reliving old times, trying to capture something of her, while there’s still a flavour of her in the house. It’s real, you know. A perfume. The shampoo she used, I think. Something else I can’t pin down. I know it won’t last for long.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “Mary watched her fondly. ‘My Clive.”

22. “Mary watched her fondly. ‘My Clive.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “She fell suddenly and deeply asleep. A reaction to the shock, she thought later. It was as if a fuse had blown. She needed to escape.”

23. “She fell suddenly and deeply asleep. A reaction to the shock, she thought later. It was as if a fuse had blown. She needed to escape.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “The fair one was the prettier, round and soft, but Magnus noticed the dark one first; her black hair was streaked with luminescent blue.”

24. “The fair one was the prettier, round and soft, but Magnus noticed the dark one first; her black hair was streaked with luminescent blue.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “He spent too much of his time responding to disasters that never happened.”

25. “He spent too much of his time responding to disasters that never happened.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “He knew how little praise it took for an insecure person to feel grateful.”

26. “He knew how little praise it took for an insecure person to feel grateful.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “Vera had a stab of recognition which made her stop in her tracks. For a moment, the woman, overweight, aggressive, seen reflected in the shop window, looked very much like her.”

27. “Vera had a stab of recognition which made her stop in her tracks. For a moment, the woman, overweight, aggressive, seen reflected in the shop window, looked very much like her.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “Now it came back in jagged flashes, like the sunlight on the pavements. She thought, This is what it is like to be old. This is how old people remember their childhood.”

28. “Now it came back in jagged flashes, like the sunlight on the pavements. She thought, This is what it is like to be old. This is how old people remember their childhood.”

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Ann Cleeves Quote: “The road climbed steeply and then they were looking down at the village of Lovacott: a group of houses clustered around a small square, which was hardly more than the main street widened. A shop that seemed to sell everything, a pub. There was nothing picturesque here. No thatch. It would never have featured in an episode of Midsomer Murders.”

29. “The road climbed steeply and then they were looking down at the village of Lovacott: a group of houses clustered around a small square, which was hardly more than the main street widened. A shop that seemed to sell everything, a pub. There was nothing picturesque here. No thatch. It would never have featured in an episode of Midsomer Murders.”

— Ann Cleeves

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