Badlands Quotes

“Where did the Picts live? Might they still be here? The Romans were so scared of them they built a wall. Two walls, by orders of two emperors after they successively failed to frighten them into passivity. And now the Celtic Supremicists. Is there nothing this part of the world will stop at to create its own agenda?”
― Deirdre Chapman, Badlands

“Half an identity is better than none. It gets you a car and lets you drive it, but it has fuck all to say about where you should be going and why. So he is simply heading south.”
― Deirdre Chapman, Badlands

“When they watched The Third Man, which was often, too often in Charlotte's opinion, her mother would pause on the two graveyard scenes, the first when the man who was not Harry Lime was disinterred, the second where the real Harry Lime took his place. "That's our grave," she would say. "Or pretty damn close to it.”
― Deirdre Chapman, Badlands

“He will sit here a little longer. His tracks now will be totally hidden. He will retrace his steps to the empty side of the mountain and climb down to the loch., drink from it, then find his way to a road where, easily acceptable as a snow-stranded and well turned out motorist who has walked some way from his car, he will accept a lift as far and as fast from the Achindarnoch Hotel as the sod's law of passing vehicles will allow.”
― Deirdre Chapman, Badlands

“He will sit here a little longer. His tracks now will be totally hidden. He will retrace his steps to the empty side of the mountain and climb down to the loch, drink from it, then find his way to a road where, easily acceptable as a snow-stranded and well turned out motorist who has walked some way from his car, he will accept a lift as far and as fast from the Achindarnoch Hotel as the sod's law of passing vehicles will allow.”
― Deirdre Chapman, Charles C. Merchant, snow, loch, escape, Sutherland, Badlands

“For a short waterfall it is surprisingly noisy and too close to the car park for him to risk shouting over it so they stand there in silence observing it. Obviously she wants to and he finds that he can tolerate the distraction, using the time to check her out. Posh punk, he thinks, hard to see which is dominant. Frayed denim skirt and black leggings under a very classy cashmere coat. She trawled a high-end branch of Oxfam or she's genuinely indigent with a good source of hand-me-downs. Whichever, she has a near-perfect profile and pink hair.”
― Deirdre Chapman, Badlands