Nobody Walks Quotes

“He wasn’t tired”
― Mick Herron, Nobody Walks

“Bettany poured more water. He didn’t often think about his past, but that too was the undercover mentality. The person you used to be was sealed off, boxed tight, locked shut, and you walked away. But nobody really walked”
― Mick Herron, Nobody Walks

“You’re aware of how it works. Violent men don’t resort to violence. It’s simply what they do.”
― Mick Herron, Nobody Walks

“Sitting on a crowded tube was to become child-sized again, on a level with the hips and stomachs of adults.”
― Mick Herron, Nobody Walks

“Not far away there was music, the kind whose unrelenting beat is its entire point, and the irritation it causes to anyone over thirty a mere bonus.”
― Mick Herron, Nobody Walks

“dissipation.”
― Mick Herron, Nobody Walks

“JK Coe had identified the unspoken codicil, that there was no sense having a car in London unless you had a parking space. Then there was every sense having a car in London, even if you had to leave it in your parking space, to stop anyone else parking there.”
― Mick Herron, Nobody Walks

“otiose,”
― Mick Herron, Nobody Walks

“Bettany withdrew but left the window open. Fresh air gratefully occupied the flat.”
― Mick Herron, Nobody Walks

“The skyline had altered, with new towers jutting heavenwards from the City, and more poised to sprout everywhere you looked. But that had always been the case. London had never been finished, and never would be.”
― Mick Herron, Nobody Walks