Pop Goes the Weasel Quotes

“There is a fantasy that sustains you when you’re on active service. It’s the dream that sustains every soldier when he's stuck in some godforsaken dustbowl being shot at and shouted at. It’s the fantasy that there’s something better waiting for you at home. In this fantasy, your girl is keeping the home fires burning, hankering for your return.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Pop Goes the Weasel

“The fog crept in from the sea, suffocating the city. It descended like an invading army, consuming landmarks, choking out the moonlight, rendering Southampton a strange and unnerving place.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Pop Goes the Weasel

“The aftermath of rape is like a slow death, a cancer eating away at you from the inside, unwilling to let you go, unwilling to let you live.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Pop Goes the Weasel

“Whatever she did – whether in work or play – she did with utter determination, a will to succeed and a real sense of fun. And he missed her. He really, really missed her. Romantically she was impulsive and surprising, sexually she had been imaginative and mischievous, and emotionally she was always so giving.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Pop Goes the Weasel

“This was a house that trapped people rather than protected them.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Pop Goes the Weasel

“In a world where it seemed harder and harder to find meaningful connections with other people – love, marriage, family – it had never been easier to find paid companionship. The world was in the doldrums, the country still in the grip of recession, but one thing was clear. Southampton was awash with sex.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Pop Goes the Weasel

“She had a nasty feeling that forces beyond her control were gathering and preparing to shake her world.”
― M.J. Arlidge, Pop Goes the Weasel