"He was bewildered. This didn’t matter very much; bewilderment was often a copper’s lot. His job was to make sense of …"

"But sometimes you should follow the arrogance…You should look for those who can’t believe that the law would ever cat…"

"He was eating a roasted rabbit like there was no tomorrow—which clearly had been the case for the rabbit. (p. 417)"

"They think that I’m like them! I hate that! They just don’t get it! They’ve got on well for years without ever having…"

"But I’ll say this for the old bastard: he is honorable, honest and straightforward. It’s a shame that he is also pigh…"

"When you aren’t expecting it, that’s when you should expect it! (p. 428)"

"You’re just a bully who found it easier and easier and decided that everybody else wasn’t really a real person, not l…"

"Woman’s logic, Sam thought: everything is going to be all right because it ought to be all right. The trouble is, rea…"

"The law is there for the people, rather than the other way round. (p. 446)"

"Can I make one thing perfectly clear, your grace, the law cannot act retrospectively. If it did, none of us would be …"