Full Dark House Quotes

“The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“If any lesson from war is to be learned, John, it must be always to prepare for the unexpected and face the unthinkable.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“The young detective possessed that peculiar ability more common to elderly men, which produces negative energy around electrical equipment, turning even the most basic appliances into weapons of destruction.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“Plastic carrier bags floated around the traffic lights at the end of the Strand like predatory jellyfish.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“May felt exhilarated around Bryant. He had always imagined that somewhere out there, away from suburban dullness, ardent young people were allowed to give freer rein to their thoughts. He felt as though he had arrived at a place he had always wanted to be.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“He kept his shirt-tail hanging out below the hem of his jacket as a white flag to motorists; over four thousand people had been killed in blackout accidents during the first few months of the war. It was safer to take an overseas posting with the British Expeditionary Force.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“It was a violent place in which to discover a purpose. It was a good place to forge a friendship.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“[In the theatre] Thanks.' He paused on the stairs. "And good-
"Don't say it!" yelled Helena. "No whistling, no well-wishing."
"I thought you weren't superstitious."
"I'm not,' she said defiantly, 'but obviously there are limits.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“The world will need sceptics after the war is over. Too many people are ready to believe anything they’re told.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“The closer you are to death, the more attached you become to life,”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“Thanks to Hitler, we are no longer living in a world that cares about the death of someone because they were loved in the past. It cares only if that death can do damage to the future. It’s a grim truth, Sidney. Like Orpheus leaving Hades, we are rushing headlong into the light of a terrible new world.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“Finding the spoor from an act of cruelty, and trying to perceive the fading traces that lead away from it, following the dispersal of the participants rather than their convergence.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“through”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“A small kickable dog with bug eyes”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“over four thousand people had been killed in blackout accidents during the first few months of the war.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“In 1939, London was the largest city in the world.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“Когда встретишь свою единственную любовь, все другие - просто иллюзия.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“Phobias are powerful vehicles for aggressive feelings. They condense anxiety. Intrusive phobias aren’t part of general personalities, they just kick in at key moments. They’re a defence against intense trauma, fear of intimacy, stuff like that.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“I know how the world works. Business decisions are not made for the good of the people, but for the sake of profit, loyalty and expedience.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“Thanks to Hitler, we are no longer living in a world that cares about the death of someone because they were loved in the past. It cares only if that death can do damage to the future.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“Throughout history, human nature remains unchanged. The world’s oldest questions are still being asked. Medea, Oedipus, we’re not adding anything that the Greeks didn’t already know.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“The city survived in fragments, as though it had been painted on glass and the glass had shattered. He”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“Look at the photographs of Hitler at Nuremberg two years ago, the deadness behind the eyes that denies humanity, just as it betrays the true darkness of the soul.’ May”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“War changes that. Crimes start to happen without reason, because people are upset, or angry, or just frustrated. Acts of violence are squalid, casual, mundane. Contrition, misery, fingerprints everywhere, children in tears.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“We’re the police, we don’t thump people.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“The first one, his first sight of a dead body. That had changed everything. A fall from innocence, and the start of a lifelong fascination with violent crime.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“Like all dancers, so much of her body fat had been converted to muscle that she needed to eat regularly.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House

“What humanity wants most is crude sensation.
Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.”
― Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House