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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 52e1eb5 | over four thousand people had been killed in blackout accidents during the first few months of the war. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 5dc9a95 | eggs were | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 14d14c6 | trouser turn-up | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 2f77093 | Yes, he wanted to do the right thing, but perhaps this time the right thing was something different. | right-thing something-different | Christopher Fowler | |
| 82251be | Like all dancers, so much of her body fat had been converted to muscle that she needed to eat regularly. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| c280b11 | I wouldn't like to find out my GP was messing about with black magic. It would be like discovering that your bank manager was also a stand-up comic. | black-magic doctor stand-up-comic | Christopher Fowler | |
| 9b32cc8 | Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead. | death humor humour loss | Christopher Fowler | |
| c31ec96 | It is said that the hallmark of a gentleman is that he is only ever rude intentionally. Arthur Bryant was no gentleman. His rudeness came from an inability to cloak his opinions in even the most cursory civility. He believed in good manners at the meal table and bad manners almost everywhere else. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| b54a478 | The fear of poverty is never far away from the working-class mind, and all the plasma TVs, PlayStations and iPhones are just talismans warding off that darkness. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| c68c780 | What is the point in consensual opinion?" Bryant asked, exasperated. "If you only discuss matters of interest with like-minded individuals you never learn anything new. Why would I want a peer group on Twitter? They're just going to agree with me." | Christopher Fowler | ||
| f780dc7 | May walked slowly around the body, studying it. Putrefaction had been halted in its advance, but the corpse's skin had turned green and black, producing an acrid odour. He found it hard to imagine that this man had recently been walking around, eating in restaurants, watching TV. He was someone's lover, someone's son, but there was almost nothing human left. Without a head his trunk bore an unsettling similarity to something you would find .. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 36ad8c3 | You can't pour a pint of bitter into a cocktail glass. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 0c364a9 | susurrant | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 9c52762 | The clouds of night opened like ink blossoming in water. | historical london | Christopher Fowler | |
| c05ce56 | Life is a very beautiful dream, he thought. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet. | life thankful | Christopher Fowler | |
| 8886b13 | His new life required no great change in the patterns of his behaviour. It was merely an adjustment. He had always known how to make himself invisible. | change choices-in-life life | Christopher Fowler | |
| dd9efb3 | His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it. | skill talents uniqueness | Christopher Fowler | |
| edd6ff7 | The public house is virtually the country's last unassailable place, now that so many churches lock their doors. For hundreds of years it has occupied a unique position in our culture. What's the one thing every pub is supposed to have?' 'I don't know.' Land scratched at his chin. 'At least two brands of bad lager?' 'A welcoming hearth created by centuries of tradition. Wasn't it Hilaire Belloc who once said "When you have lost your inns dr.. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| fa0565f | There can be no supernatural elements, no secret passages, no imaginary poisons, no Chinamen, no twins, no mystical intuitive powers, and the detective himself can't have done it. To them I would add several further moratoria: no more alcoholic policemen with dead wives, no autistic idiot-savant crime-scene specialists, no oppressed female detectives derided by sexist colleagues, no overweight computer nerds in dimly lit rooms, no erudite k.. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| bb99068 | The young detective possessed that peculiar ability more common to elderly men, which produces negative energy around electrical equipment, turning even the most basic appliances into weapons of destruction. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| ff3f503 | I suppose the worst thing isn't that there might be nothing after death, but that there might be nothing before it. | life | Christopher Fowler | |
| 635b311 | Three deaths--by snakebite, by explosion, by razor. What next? Death by hot air balloon? Cannon? Trident? | Christopher Fowler | ||
| a7bb5f5 | While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers." ' | Akio Morita | ||
| 63b922a | Bryant wanted to be outside digging up corpses and chasing (as much as his bad leg would allow) unscrupulous but fiendishly brilliant villains through the back alleys of the city. Instead he was meeting a clerk about forgotten bits of paperwork. | forgotten-bits-of-paperwork | Christopher Fowler | |
| abe7397 | They'll be working through until it's done, so Janice has gone to KFC for a bargain bucket. They're dining al desko. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 748437f | Kogda vstretish' svoiu edinstvennuiu liubov', vse drugie - prosto illiuziia. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 2f237ad | He's got the charm of a rectal probe, and no social skills to speak of, so nobody wants to go for a drink with him. Let's face it, dogs have more to look forward to in later life--at least they can go to the park and roll in shit. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 4b9fbfe | Gathered together in this fashion, Jerry could see that the Whitstables possessed certain common physical characteristics, including wayward teeth, large earlobes, and the sort of stress-related blotchiness usually found in cornered jellyfish. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 0f97c78 | It's hardly a wonder that they call London the most elusive city in the world. Its character changes from one street to the next. There's no rhyme or reason, no pattern to the place. You could take six people at random from the centre of town, ask them to write down all the places they visit regularly and find that their circles of movement don't overlap at more than one or two points. Each of them would see a different city. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| e7ddc30 | Do you want me to come to the hospital? she offered." Bryant's blue eyes widened. "Good Lord, no, why would you want to do that? I'll take a paperback. Reading a book is the finest way of attaining inner peace." | Christopher Fowler | ||
| b5c6bdf | We're the police, we don't thump people. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 3369b1b | Old age should burn and rave at close of day. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 5097236 | What humanity wants most is crude sensation. Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity. | humanity | Christopher Fowler | |
| c00eb8e | It was a violent place in which to discover a purpose. It was a good place to forge a friendship. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| e876c4e | In the theatre] Thanks.' He paused on the stairs. "And good- "Don't say it!" yelled Helena. "No whistling, no well-wishing." "I thought you weren't superstitious." "I'm not,' she said defiantly, 'but obviously there are limits." | theatre-quotations | Christopher Fowler | |
| 38f2da2 | Skinner's suits were a constant source of fascination to Robert. They seemed to be made from an alien synthetic fibre that never creased or got dirty. Indeed, it seemed possible that Skinner himself was constructed of the same material. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 360ade6 | I have to go, I'm being asked to join a conga line through the Byzantine reliquaries. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 8fead28 | She's out of her depth, pretty as porcelain and a lot more fragile. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| a5bf454 | Leave the thought, it will surface when it's ready | christopher-fowler off-the-rails | Christopher Fowler | |
| 247174d | I know how the world works. Business decisions are not made for the good of the people, but for the sake of profit, loyalty and expedience. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| b4989a5 | Throughout history, human nature remains unchanged. The world's oldest questions are still being asked. Medea, Oedipus, we're not adding anything that the Greeks didn't already know. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 3c00d92 | Phobias are powerful vehicles for aggressive feelings. They condense anxiety. Intrusive phobias aren't part of general personalities, they just kick in at key moments. They're a defence against intense trauma, fear of intimacy, stuff like that. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 3c7c97c | May felt exhilarated around Bryant. He had always imagined that somewhere out there, away from suburban dullness, ardent young people were allowed to give freer rein to their thoughts. He felt as though he had arrived at a place he had always wanted to be. | Christopher Fowler | ||
| 43e6413 | Mr May, you reach a certain age when you don't have enemies any more, just people who find you mildly annoying. | Christopher Fowler |