Andrew Taylor Quotes

United Kingdom, Author
October 14, 1951

Andrew Taylor is a British author best known for his crime novels, which include the Lydmouth series, the Roth Trilogy and historical novels such as the best-selling The American Boy and The Ashes of London. His accolades include the Diamond Dagger, Britain's top crime-writing award.

Why do we think only the dead haunt us, for the living are just as good at it?

Andrew Taylor
- Living
- Dead
- Haunt
One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark.

Andrew Taylor
- Dark
- Cats
- Grey

Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.

Andrew Taylor
- Mind
- Books
- Luxuries
We put the labels we choose on things [...], and for our own purposes. That is the long and the short of it.

Andrew Taylor
- Choose
- Labels
- Purposes
We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.

Andrew Taylor
- Way
- Details
- Distract
That's what hell means, perhaps, being compelled not just to live but to relive.

Andrew Taylor
- Live
- Means
- Relive
Time doesn't heal, it just gives you other things to think about.

Andrew Taylor
- Time
- Think
- Heal
The grief of children was unconditional, fueled by the implicit belief that it would last forever; for a child, grief was not grief unless it was eternal.

Andrew Taylor
- Children
- Belief
- Grief