Nineteen Eighty Three Quotes

“You waited in the same piss for your Pete to show. He didn't so you went inside and cremated your mother. Stood alone at the front and bit the inside of your cheek until the blood wouldn't stop and the tears finally came.”
― David Peace, Nineteen Eighty Three

“Nodding and laughing-
Really, really laughing-
The guards too.
Laughing and nodding and blinking and patting down his hair, the spittle on his chin-
Michael John Myshkin, murderer of children is laughing-
Spittle on his chin, tears on his cheeks.”
― David Peace, Nineteen Eighty Three

“No more dead dogs and slashed swans for us," whispered Dick Alderman, like this was good news-
It wasn't.”
― David Peace, Nineteen Eighty Three