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1 " He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it. "
― Colin Cotterill , The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)
2 " It takes it out of you, writing with heart. And it was just for me really. Sort of a confirmation to myself that my inner diva can still make love to the keyboard when she’s in the mood. I have to keep her roped and gagged when I’m writing for the newspapers. They don’t like her at all. They don’t want love. They want a quick tryst in a motel room that’s forgotten in a few hours. "
― Colin Cotterill
3 " Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories. "
― Colin Cotterill , Thirty-Three Teeth (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #2)
4 " There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself. "
5 " A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it. "
― Colin Cotterill , Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #7)
6 " I’m sure he doesn’t see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable. "
― Colin Cotterill , The Merry Misogynist (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #6)
7 " So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And Communism had brought him back full circle to poverty. "
8 " THERE MIGHT BE A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MOON'S ENERGY WHEN IT'S FULL AND THE ELECTRICAL IMPULSES IN THE BRAIN. "
9 " Honesty can be a dirty gift. "
10 " I’m left doing all the unskilled labor myself, which is exactly when you realize there’s nothing unskilled about labor. "
― Colin Cotterill , Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #4)
11 " Defensive driving' meant we travelled so slowly we were often overtaken by maimed war veterans on tricycles "
― Colin Cotterill , Killed at the Whim of a Hat (Jimm Juree, #1)
12 " I FIND THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE FAIL TO SEE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES. "
13 " A good communist,” the man had said, “does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find its own direction. He eats with her, tends to her injuries, and sleeps with her until the job is done.” Siri had resisted the temptation to spread the word that the Party was advocating bestiality. "
― Colin Cotterill , Slash and Burn (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #8)
14 " The woman’s brain has two hemispheres,” she slurred. “One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time. "
15 " Forget the planet, save the garden. "
16 " There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul "
― Colin Cotterill , The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #9)
17 " Concentrate on the small things and do them well. "
18 " Do you suppose it all means something?That we're being left clues?Perhaps.Then, no offense, but I fear they've badly overestimated us. "
19 " This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is. "
20 " If nothing else, my analysis of George W.’s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish. "
