...though I am still...exceedingly puzzled as to why our murderer should decide to draw almost inevitable attention to himself by wearing such a conspicuous pair of plimsolls and running around Burford for two and a half hours.
Colin DexterI always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.
Colin DexterThere's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse
Colin DexterTags: inspirational
Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.
Colin DexterThis was exactly why holidays were so valuable, he told himself: they allowed you to stand back a bit, and see where you were going rusty.
Colin DexterWalters looked quizzically at Morse, who sat reading one of the glossy 'porno' magazines he had brought from upstairs.
"You still sex-mad, I see, Morse," said the surgeon.
"I don't seem to be able to shake it off, Max." Morse turned over a page. "And you don't improve much either, do you? You've been examining all our bloody corpses for donkey's years, and you still refuse to tell us when they died.
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He sighed and knew that life was full of ‘if only’ for everyone
Colin DexterTags: life what-if if-only if-only-quotes
It is strange to relate (for a man in his profession) that in addition to incurable acrophobia, arachnophobia, myophobia, and ornithophobia, Morse also suffered from necrophobia; and had he known what awaited him now, it is doubtful whether he would have dared to view the horridly disfigured corpse at all.
Colin DexterTags: myophobia necrophobia ornithophobia
During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.
Colin DexterHe was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.
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