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One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2) QUOTES

One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2) QUOTES

1 " They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

2 " Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

3 " Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

4 " She... applied makeup, enough to have made an effort, not enough to be blatantly a woman... "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

5 " You said five little words to someone--How can I help you?--and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

6 " The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss). "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

7 " She was real and she was dead. And she was out there somewhere. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

8 " The room stank of boys. Louise imagined a girl’s room would smell of nail varnish, pencils, cheap candy sweets. Archie’s room was essence of testosterone and feet. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

9 " No one ever warned you about how ferocious mother love could be, let’s face it, no one warned you about anything. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

10 " Mitä ovat todelliset rikokset? Kapitalismi, uskonto, seksi? Murha - yleensä mutta ei välttämättä. Varkaus - samoin. Mutta julmuus ja välinpitämättömyys ovat myös rikoksia. Samoin huonot tavat ja tunteettomuus. Mutta pahinta on välinpitämättömyys. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

11 " This is Martin Canning, Neil. He’s written a wonderful book.” “Fantastic,” Neil Winters said, shaking Martin’s hand. His hand was damp and soft and made Martin think of something dead you might pick up on the beach. “The first of many, I "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

12 " Sometimes you wondered why anyone bothered crawling out of the cradle when what lay ahead was so darn difficult. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

13 " let’s face it, no one warned you about anything. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

14 " One of the things Jackson liked about Julia was her independence, one of the things he didn’t like about Julia was her independence. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

15 " The world inside his head was so much better than the world outside his head. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

16 " So, what do they pay you for...exactly?"
"Slapped around. Tied up. Beaten. Given orders, made to do things."
"What kind of things?"
"You know."
"No, I can't even begin to imagine."
"Lick my boots, crawl on floor, eat like dog."
"Nothing useful, then, like hoovering? "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

17 " But melancholy, that was his own true humor. A miserable bastard, in other words. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

18 " Gloria regretted that she wasn’t a knitter, she could be producing a useful garment while waiting for Graham to die. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

19 " Boxes within boxes, dolls within dolls, worlds within worlds. Everything was connected. Everything in the whole world. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)

20 " Another day where nothing has happened, he thought. That was a good thing, he reminded himself. What was the Chinese curse? May you live in interesting times. "

― Kate Atkinson , One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)