Anyway, you get on well with what’s-her-name.’ ‘Livvy. She’s good. She’s not like you, though.’ ‘You’re just trying to make me feel better.’ ‘Not gobby and awkward, I mean.’ ‘Well, there you go.’
“I’m not saying I wouldn’t like to see proof of your possession of the full picnic’s worth of sandwiches, but I’m in a weakened enough state to take your word for it.”
― Bloody Christmas
― Bloody Christmas
“It’s like how you could go through your whole life and never meet an unsuccessful parachutist. That didn’t mean they didn’t exist. They did, but only for as long as it took gravity to prove an emphatic point from ten thousand feet.”
― Bloody Christmas
― Bloody Christmas
“If you don’t mind me saying, you are a very peculiar man.” “Sane though. I’ve got a piece of paper.”
― Bloody Christmas
― Bloody Christmas
“Bonner smiled. “Are you going to tell me next how when you were a kid you only got an orange for Christmas, Sarge?” O’Keefe took a sip on his coffee to hide a smile. “Cheeky bitch, I’m not that old.” “Or that fond of fruit.”
― Bloody Christmas
― Bloody Christmas
“Wang Min nodded and pointed at himself. “Statistician.” “Great,” said Bunny. “If his English was better, he could help us figure out the odds on this turning out well.”
― Bloody Christmas
― Bloody Christmas
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