The Sacred Art of Stealing Quotes

“Was there anything quite so under-rated in this shallow, plastic, global-corporate, tall-skinny-late, kiddy-meal-and-free-toy, united-colours-of-fuck-you-too world, than a good old-fashioned, no-frills, retail blow-job?”
― Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing

“...twenty-first century communications technology rendering the planet not so much global village as global schoolroom full of sniggering male virgins and bitchy female hypocrites.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing

“Non è che siamo degli emarginati, è che abbiamo imparato cos'è che non ci serve.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing

“... ci sono errori che fin dall'inizio sai di dover commettere, di voler commettere, a dispetto di cosa ti dica la coscienza, la logica o la paura”
― Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing

“the sacred art of leaving I only had to be cut once to know how to bleed I know why we tend to love most those who know how to leave Take my hand and let me tell you All but my love will soon be gone And the exit wound will be quick and clean So the sacred art of leaving passes on. Billy Franks”
― Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing

“She wouldn’t dispute that there was such a thing as sheer, instinctive physical attraction, but sexual attraction was a more intricate process, and the greater part of it happened in the head. Good sex needed commitment, and by that she didn’t mean honourable intentions or proven longevity. Commitment was about how much you were prepared to let go. If you were with someone long enough, that came through trust. Otherwise, it had to come through abandon.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing

“I don’t compromise in order to fit in, and I’m not giving in to any arsehole who wants to make me feel I don’t belong wherever I put myself.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing

“The hand doesn’t need to be quicker than the eye if the eye is looking in the wrong place. Everything the magician does is about misleading the audience, everything: how he stands, where he looks, where he points and especially what he says. He will never be doing what he says he is doing, and if he tells you what he’s about to do, he’s lying.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing

“You don’t get angry at the successful geniuses, you get angry at the successful mediocrities, and at the people who can’t tell the fucking difference.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing

“There’s five million people a year standing in the spot where we are now simply because this is the most famous painting in the world and therefore you just have to go and see it. Doesn’t matter if you’re more naturally drawn to landscapes, battle scenes, religious paintings, whatever: you have to go see the Mona Lisa, so it remains the most famous and popular painting in the world by virtue of being the most famous and popular painting in the world.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing

“Zal wasn’t sure whether it would help an uninformed”
― Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing