Down to a Sunlit Sea Quotes

“Radulf appeared to recollect he hadn’t been given any decent food either and consequently gagged then retched in protest. On a final, huge wheezy cough, he produced something he’d apparently found for himself on Dartmoor. The sight of it, a slimy lump of dark strands suspended in globules of drool—hopefully just a hairball but possibly not—set Aleksey off, and he leaned over and contributed to the mess on the floor. Ben, never motion sick, even in rough weather, flushed at this sight, sweat breaking out on his brow. He eyed the bottle of rum he’d been drinking from, swore, turned and spewed it all back up. He’d at least had some marmalade many hours previous, if the orange lumps were anything to go by. Tim possibly would have still been okay.”
― John Wiltshire, Down to a Sunlit Sea

“Nothing to kill or die for.”
― John Wiltshire, Down to a Sunlit Sea

“Aleksey checked his watch, but as he couldn’t read it during daylight had no chance in the dark. Ben said dryly, ‘Nearly four.”
― John Wiltshire, Down to a Sunlit Sea

“He was having a great deal more fun than even he’d anticipated from the baby tyrant being gone: a whole morning fucking Benjamin Rider-Mikkelsen, a frosty drive over Dartmoor, getting enough ammunition on the moron to last him years, and now an unexpected and highly amusing drunken escapade to Light Island.”
― John Wiltshire, Down to a Sunlit Sea

“He’d never seen Tim Watson paralytic and anticipated the results being spectacular.”
― John Wiltshire, Down to a Sunlit Sea