Curse of the Pogo Stick Quotes

“Dipping a cockroach in ink and having it scamper around the page would have left more legible traces to the average reader.”
― Colin Cotterill, Curse Of The Pogo Stick

“...socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.”
― Colin Cotterill, Curse of the Pogo Stick

“She doesn’t drink when she’s driving. Best move I ever made, teaching her the basics of the internal combustion engine. Saved my life on a number of occasions.”
― Colin Cotterill, Curse of the Pogo Stick

“Something about the countryside released the emotions that remained bottled in the city. Perhaps he wasn’t just sad for the plight of these friends, perhaps it was a global, all-encompassing sadness that included this whole country, and the hopelessness of life, and the fact that there would never really be peace in the world because man was intrinsically stupid.”
― Colin Cotterill, Curse of the Pogo Stick

“It was the color of a neglected tooth. Several rows of red clay pots stood guard around it. At some stage they’d contained pretty bougainvillea and mimosa and magnolia but now their dark skeletons poked from the cracked earth in crippled poses.”
― Colin Cotterill, Curse Of The Pogo Stick

“Socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.”
― Colin Cotterill, Curse of the Pogo Stick

“It was a Lao-Mexican standoff. Haeng couldn't fire Siri and they both knew it.”
― Colin Cotterill, Curse of the Pogo Stick

“Deceit and trickery didn’t sit well on his conscience. He had to do more than that. Earlier, while he’d sat on a boulder waiting for his supper, the sun slowly easing its way over the mountains, he’d engaged himself in a little lateral thinking like his literary hero Inspector Maigret.”
― Colin Cotterill, Curse of the Pogo Stick

“Now he had no choice but to formally add one more branch of sorcery to his list of irrational beliefs. Fortune-telling had become a science. Soon there’d be nothing but politics left to dismiss as bunkum.”
― Colin Cotterill, Curse of the Pogo Stick

“stay quiet, little baby, Sleep well and deep, For in only a few seconds Father and Mother will return From taking care of the cows. He then”
― Colin Cotterill, Curse Of The Pogo Stick

“But not one sensible argument as to why unarmed women and children and old people posed a threat to the nation.”
― Colin Cotterill, Curse of the Pogo Stick

“Evil, he had come to believe, was controllable as long as man had the strength of will to believe in himself.”
― Colin Cotterill, Curse of the Pogo Stick