Heat Trap Quotes

“—activity holidays are a whatsit. Contradiction in terms.”
“Oxymoron.”
I flipped him a finger. “Same to you with knobs on.”
― J.L. Merrow, Heat Trap

“Or have you simply been enjoying that North African river cruise?”
“You what?”
“In de-Nile?”
― J.L. Merrow, Heat Trap

“It’s the fish I feel sorry for, in all this global warming. They don’t even have a carbon footprint.”
― J.L. Merrow, Heat Trap

“I do love nibbling on a cherry.” Bloody hell. If that was Gary flirting with my sister, I was out of here.”
― J.L. Merrow, Heat Trap

“There was a young man from Nantucket Who got hit on the head with a bucket It started to throb So he got out his knob And got all the nurses to suck it. I chuckled, then the hairs on the back of my neck started to prickle. I looked up to see Nurse Sarah (late twenties or early thirties, chirpy, on the cuddly side—she could have been Gary’s twin sister) reading over my shoulder. “Sorry, love,” she said. “This is the NHS. You’ll have to go private if you want that kind of service.”
― J.L. Merrow, Heat Trap

“I don’t need Simon Bloody Cowell making me look like a right tit on the telly.”
― J.L. Merrow, Heat Trap

“Gary made the word heterosexual sound like something out of The Joy of Extreme Sex. Lovechildren produced by illicit affairs were still a bit of a sore topic with me.”
― J.L. Merrow, Heat Trap

“No,” I said shortly, wanting
to nip this one firmly in the bud. “Not aha. Not any other eighties Europop band either.”
― J.L. Merrow, Heat Trap