Christopher Everest

“I think that I need to be a little immersive with regard to the cultural context for judo if I want to avoid getting beaten up by sixteen-year-old girls again next week. I think there was something important missing at my first lesson. I mean apart from things like balance and motor skills, I felt I was missing something of the essence of the judoka,’ said Hungry Paul.”
― Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul

“I pin the laser on the Impala and take another reading. Four hundred thirty yards, line of sight. I push a button on the rangefinder and switch to inclinometer mode. The device calculates the cosine of the angle made between true horizontal and my line of sight. The digital reading is zero-point-eight-seven, equivalent to about thirty degrees. A quick mental calculation gives me the range adjustment. The horizontal range is three hundred and seventy-five yards.”
― Cameron Curtis, Danger Close

“I can’t imagine what a fight between two librarians would look like. Did they hit each other with bookmarks?”
― Andrew Hastie, Chimaera

“George’s smile was that of a lion who had just made it inside a zebra-only nightclub and was now taking off his stripey pyjamas to the horrified stares of all the other patrons.”
― Steve Higgs, Albert Smith's Culinary Capers: The first 10 Recipes