The Hot Floor Quotes

“might not be able to tell them I loved them, but I could do my best to show them, and maybe, just maybe, they’d notice. Maybe they’d even love me back, after a fashion.”
― Josephine Myles, The Hot Floor

“You okay, chuck?”
I nodded, or tried to, anyway. To be honest, I was pretty confused and disorientated. The three thoughts circling round my head were How was I going to get to my toilet now?, Oh my God, I can see Evan’s cock! and Did Rai just say he wanted untying?”
― Josephine Myles, The Hot Floor

“Evan chuckled and shook his head. “I should have known it would be another owl. What is it with you and owls? I’m surrounded by the bloody things. There’s more of them than the spider plants.”
“Don’t listen to him,” Rai said, standing and swivelling around to take in all his menagerie. Owlery? I made a mental note to Google the collective noun for owls later. “You’re all precious snowflakes, my lovelies.”
― Josephine Myles, The Hot Floor

“Right. So you haven’t been spending every spare hour round at geeky and slaphead’s, then?”
“Don’t call them that. They have names.” Although privately I had my own names for them: octopus and trouser python.”
― Josephine Myles, The Hot Floor