Quotes by : Ian Rankin

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

...trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.....

The man nodded and brought a bottle from the glass-fronted fridge,

Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some....

And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.

What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?

It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing.""You mean you went to....

Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.....

This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.