Home > Work > Snap
1 " He was only wearing trainers, but a kick in the face is a kick in the face. "
― Belinda Bauer , Snap
2 " There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who think it could never happen to them. And those who know it will ... "
3 " IT WAS BEDTIME and Adam was at the back door, calling the cat. ‘Chiiiiips! Chiiiii-ips! Come on, Chips!’ Catherine smiled to herself. Chips always made Adam beg. She never begged. She called, he came, or she locked him out for the night. Simple. Chips knew that, and always shot in from the garden like a furry white arrow. But he had Adam wrapped around his little claw, and wouldn’t come in until his own personal human had been thoroughly humiliated – whistling, wheedling, and shaking the box of treats like Barry Manilow on the maracas. "
4 " It would all make her a very smooth liar, he said.She's obsessed with cats, shrugged Marvel. Who knows WHAT she's capable of? "
5 " All I’m saying is, when you have a kid, then suddenly you understand how easy it is to make mistakes, see? And you forgive your parents a bit, you know? "
6 " She had arthritis, which meant that sometimes she experienced the agony of her diamond rings not fitting. She complained to the doctor about it constantly; she’d paid good money for those rings and somehow felt that the NHS simply didn’t want her wearing them – socialist cartel that it was. "
7 " He always knew it wasn’t right, but his anger made it feel fair. "
8 " Kiekvienas kuria savo praeitį - per kitų patirtis, nuotraukas, antraštes ir tikrovės nuotrupas, kai viskas persimaišo į prisiminimus, kuriuos laiko savais. "
9 " It was tiny in the way that only modern houses could be – with space for all mod cons but no room for character. "
10 " wasn’t really London; it was Bromley. But it was close enough to London to make Marvel start dropping his aitches. "
11 " But she didn't say it with her usual conviction. It was too hot for conviction. "
12 " Louis’s twin brother Calvin was the white sheep of the family. At nineteen he had run away and joined the police. It made things awkward between them, of course, but Louis still loved his brother and each turned a blind eye to the other’s unfortunate career choices, and once a year they went camping together on Exmoor. "
13 " My God, Catherine, stop making a fuss! People have been having babies for thousands of years without all this hoo-hah about fish and cigarettes.’ ‘Oh, for God’s sake!’ Catherine hung up, incandescent. And then, as quickly as it had flared, her anger fizzled out to nothing and she laughed instead. The call had certainly taken her mind off the break-in! And even if she’d told her mother about it, she shouldn’t have expected any sympathy from her. After all, people had been getting murdered for thousands of years without all this hoo-hah about knives and death threats … "