All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye Quotes

“I can't ask you to banish your fears, your anxiety or your anger...But don't let them use you up.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

“Cotton equals death,’ Lex told him. ‘Cotton holds moisture against the skin and prevents you warming yourself. Trust me, I’m Canadian.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

“Perhaps it was a flaw inherent in the inventive mind to have vision but not foresight. Was it that so much concentration went into developing the idea that they could not see beyond it? Or was it an inhibition of the urge to see beyond that allowed them to develop ideas before they could be dismissed as folly?”
― Christopher Brookmyre, All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

“Hey Glasgow, it’s Saturday night!’ He did it with such rapture, such a sense of celebration that Jane realised she had long ago forgotten why. Saturday night was meaningless when every day was the same, when you were never going to do anything special with it anyway. But this was a stirring reminder of what it used to mean.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

“There hadn’t come a day when she consciously decided, sod it, I’m past caring about clothes and hairstyles and make-up, but the evidence suggested she’d reached that position nonetheless.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

“...and generally acquainted yourself with how tedious normal life is...”
― Christopher Brookmyre, All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

“She drove a hundred yards or so at this tentative pace before Nuno calmly reminded her she ought to be on the right.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

“What was it about indifference that drew you to seek reaction, to seek approval?”
― Christopher Brookmyre, All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

“It was that he seemed...content to live in a wholly unexplored world.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

“Was that such a heresy, to admit that your love for your family wasn't sufficiently all-consuming as to extinguish all other desires?”
― Christopher Brookmyre, All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye