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121 " Cats have short lives. It’s how they punish you for getting attached to them. She couldn’t last forever. "
― Christopher Fowler , The Lonely Hour (Bryant & May #16)
122 " I know everyone thinks I’m difficult. It’s just that as I’ve got older I’ve become less gullible. And that makes me harder to control. I don’t listen to my peers anymore, but that’s because most of them are either dead or have gone mad, so now I’m free to explore anything I want. "
― Christopher Fowler , Off the Rails (Bryant & May, #8)
123 " Crazy leaders teach us crazy habits. "
― Christopher Fowler , Oranges and Lemons (Bryant & May #17)
124 " suppurating bunghole with all the allure of a hair on a toilet seat. "
125 " a second-rate nation run with the economic vision of an Armenian pastry shop. "
― Christopher Fowler , Wild Chamber (Bryant & May #14)
126 " gap between rich and poor was not just one of wealth but of accountability "
― Christopher Fowler , Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood (Bryant & May #9)
127 " We never came to Oxford Street as kids,’ Bryant continued. ‘My brother and I used to head to Holborn with our mother to visit the Father Christmas at Gamages department store. I loved that place. You would get into a rocket ship or a paddle steamer and step off in Santa’s grotto. That building was a palace of childhood magic. I still can’t believe they pulled it down. "
― Christopher Fowler , Bryant & May and the Secret Santa (Bryant & May, #11.5)
128 " This chronicle of survival against pirates, wild animals and the elements went on to become a beloved classic and the most memorable thing about Switzerland apart from Toblerones and euthanasia "
― Christopher Fowler , The Book of Forgotten Authors
129 " Finding the spoor from an act of cruelty, and trying to perceive the fading traces that lead away from it, following the dispersal of the participants rather than their convergence. "
― Christopher Fowler , Full Dark House (Bryant & May, #1)
130 " I would hate to think of myself as normal. What’s the point of working your whole life if you end up having to do what other people want? "
― Christopher Fowler , Ten Second Staircase (Bryant & May #4)
131 " hate what I see around me, Arthur. The urban middle class destroyed, the working poor exploited, the vulgar rich elevated to eminence, the underclass demonised, the wasteland of celebrity held in veneration. "
― Christopher Fowler , Bryant & May and the Burning Man (Bryant & May #12)
132 " The past is a weight that can end up crushing your life. "
133 " Did they realise, as they sat huddled together in the corner of the snug, that they were all outsiders in one way or another? Marked apart by the fierceness of their curiosity, they moved among the docile majority unacknowledged, mistrusted and unloved to the point where they only found solace in one another's company. "
― Christopher Fowler , The Invisible Code (Bryant & May #10)
134 " People must really adore dogs to fondle their warm bowel movements every day. "
135 " A small kickable dog with bug eyes "
136 " My instructions are disobeyed, my reputation has been irreversibly damaged, and my office wallpaper has been ruined. "
137 " You always get one or two by themselves in London pubs. That's the difference between a pub and a bar," Banbury explained. "Pubs are about conviviality and community, meeting mates. Bars are for being alone in, or for meeting a stranger. "
― Christopher Fowler
138 " Thanks to Hitler, we are no longer living in a world that cares about the death of someone because they were loved in the past. It cares only if that death can do damage to the future. It’s a grim truth, Sidney. Like Orpheus leaving Hades, we are rushing headlong into the light of a terrible new world. "
139 " Fair point. I suppose dressing up in hot countries simply involves putting on shoes. A bit like Wales. "
― Christopher Fowler , London's Glory (Bryant & May #12.5)