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The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4) QUOTES

The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4) QUOTES

1 " History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself - or not to let them SEE you being one. This is easier as a sober artist in Santa Barbara than as an alcoholic jailbird in Leith. "

― Irvine Welsh , The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)

2 " When you hurt some cunt […] it’s you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you’ve done it for fuck all, it means nothing "

― Irvine Welsh , The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)

3 " I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading "

― Irvine Welsh , The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)

4 " Increasingly, life seems fractured, as if his past had been lived by someone else. It isn't just that the place he now resides in and the people around him are poles apart, it's like he himself is an entirely different person. The overriding obsessions and foibles of the man he'd once been now feel utterly ludicrous to the current resident of his mind and body. The only bridge is rage; when angered he can taste his old self. But in California, the way he is currently living his life, few things can vex him to that extent. But that's over there. "

― Irvine Welsh , The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)

5 " Jim has a nice life, he considers, but sometimes Frank has a hell of a lot more fun. "

― Irvine Welsh , The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)

6 " The black insect-dead eyes in her suety, pockmarked face gaze at him "

― Irvine Welsh , The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)

7 " It was a familiar pattern. They would whisperingly condemn his violence with those sour, baleful expressions, until they wanted some cunt sorting out, then he would suddenly become the big hero. Manipulation. He'd discussed all this with Melanie, with his mentor, John Dick, the prison officer. It had suited them all to keep him as he was. It still suits them. He will leave them back here in Edinburgh. They can either shut the door in his face or seize him in a hypocritical embrace, it won't matter; he will be walking away from them all. "

― Irvine Welsh , The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)