Smoko Quotes

“Don’t burn your throat with the hot mince, mate,” I said.
“Looks like a bloody pelican.” Dawn had stopped her buttering to stare at Ross eating. Johnno, too, was transfixed and held his mug suspended halfway to his mouth. “Bloody hell, finished it in five seconds.”
The pie-eating show was over before it began and Dawn returned to bending Johnno’s ear.”
― F.E. Beyer, Smoko

“Those with Diogenes syndrome live in a state of squalor. Diogenes of Sinope, a Greek philosopher, lived in a barrel in ancient Athens and disparaged material possessions. So naming this syndrome after him was a misnomer. You need stuff to have squalor.”
― F.E. Beyer, Smoko