Brookmyre Quotes

#1. I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.

John Gordon Sinclair

#2. Mairi stared at Parlabane with an expression he had seen too often down the years: that look of distress at having discovered precisely how deep the rabbit hole goes, and what darkness lay at its end.

Christopher Brookmyre

#3. In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface.

Rob Thomas

#4. When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#5. If the measure of a man was the size of his hat, these were great men indeed.

Joe Abercrombie

#6. Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.

Christopher Brookmyre

#7. Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic modality and wanted to stick flowers in your navel?

Malcolm Bradbury

#8. They both looked younger than him, as well as taller, better built and undoubtedly more schooled in the noble art of punching fuck out of people. Nonetheless, younger doesn't necessarily mean faster or fitter, and Parlabane was highly schooled in the arguably less noble art of running away.

Christopher Brookmyre

#9. St Michael's RC secondary sat on a promontory overlooking the town of Auchenlea. The choice of site was an indirect consequence of a past mistake in vocational guidance, leading someone who had a pathological hatred of children into town planning, rather than the more traditional field of teaching.

Christopher Brookmyre

#10. People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.

Christopher Brookmyre

#11. Was there anything quite so under-rated in this shallow, plastic, global-corporate, tall-skinny-late, kiddy-meal-and-free-toy, united-colours-of-fuck-you-too world, than a good old-fashioned, no-frills, retail blow-job?

Christopher Brookmyre

#12. Is it colour?'
'Oh yes.'
'You don't let me down.You are my ambassador to pr0n, man.

Christopher Brookmyre

#13. Twenty-first century communications technology rendering the planet not so much global village as global schoolroom full of sniggering male virgins and bitchy female hypocrites.

Christopher Brookmyre

#14. Some things are beautiful, but they are beautiful in the way of the sun. If you fly too close, they will melt your wings and send you plummeting into the sea.

Nikita Gill

#15. Love Is: being able to keep your fucking mouth shut.

Christopher Brookmyre

#16. I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now ... Come further up, come further in!

C.S. Lewis

#17. He felt water run down his back from the damp brickwork he was sitting against, and as he worried distantly about corrosion he realised you can always fall a little further. A moment ago he thought he'd bottomed out, but now he was concerned about personal rust. Mother of fuck.

Christopher Brookmyre

#18. When they hear hooves they look for zebras instead of horses

Christopher Brookmyre

#19. Art and savagery, aesthetics and violence. Were they contradictory or symbiotic?

Christopher Brookmyre

#20. There is no shortage of well-known pirates, including: Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Blue beard, Yellowbeard, and Yellow beard with Black Roots, who surmised that, if blondes have more fun, then blond pirates must have a heck of a lot more fun.

Cuthbert Soup

#21. And what is it with these fucking people and teenage virgins anyway? Have they ever actually shagged one? I have, more than once, and none of the encounters would appear on my list of sexual highlights.

Christopher Brookmyre

#22. Stealing is the worst kind of cheating. It's cheating at life, son. It's for folk that arenae any good at life, so they have to cheat.

Christopher Brookmyre

#23. Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

Shaukat Aziz

#24. There can be only one

Christopher Brookmyre

#25. When you're up on that stage and you're working the audience, all I can think about is slamming you against the wall and burying myself in you over and over, so deep they'll never get us apart.

Christine Feehan

#26. She is the kind of child who feels a protective tenderness toward her own beginnings. It is part of her strategy in a world of displacements to make every effort to restore and preserve, keep things together for their value as remembering objects, a way of fastening herself to a life.

Don DeLillo

#27. It's that ambient dance pish that Parlabane always hears at trendy gatherings but which no bastard would ever choose to listen to for their own entertainment. The

Christopher Brookmyre

#28. I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.

Clint Eastwood

#29. Just because you disagreed with the Poll Tax and detested Margaret Thatcher - "
"Detest is a little inappropriate," Parlabane said. "Maybe closer to say I spent the entire Eighties wishing I was pissing on her rotting corpse.

Christopher Brookmyre

#30. One night of cheating, will cause a lifetime of pain'
-Kimberly Batiste

Kimberly Batiste

#31. My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!

Christopher Brookmyre

#32. There are worse ways to die than trying.

Nicole Kornher-Stace