Dead Girl Walking Quotes

“He had recently heard some chinless Tory fuckpuddle say that London was a world-class city being held back by the rest of the UK. Parlabane had reckoned that if he poured all his money and efforts into fitting out his toilet he could almost certainly have himself a truly world class shite-house. Obviously there would be little in the way of cash or other physical resources for the development and upkeep of the living room and the kitchen, etc... but if anyone asked, he could tell them he had a world-class bog and it was just a shame the rest of the house was holding it back.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking

“She’s crushed,’ McLeod said. ‘That’s why she came forward. She blames herself for what happened to Anezka.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking

“I won’t run away,’ I said.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking

“She claims I’ve got a habit of finding dangerous situations and effortlessly making them worse.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking

“No, you’re right. And you said Jan was holding their passports? I’m starting to wonder whether a rock band’s tour bus wouldn’t be the perfect cover for trafficking girls around Europe.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking

“Are you comfortable with the fact that somebody just tried to kill you?’ ‘You’d be surprised,’ he told her, grinning. ‘There’s a rather perverse side of me, to whom that part feels like coming home.’ ‘I’d heard you have a sick sense of humour. To be honest, I think the word “deranged” really sells it.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking

“Parlabane felt a hand on his back as the westbound train came clattering in from the tunnel.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking

“It would have been nice to be able to say that I told him about this and we shared a laugh over my hilarious misunderstanding, but despite learning that he didn’t hate my guts,”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking

“Don’t worry about it,’ he said, noting my frown in response to him deciding on a final setting that seemed rougher than the last. ‘We’re not happy until you’re not happy.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking

“Did you enjoy prison?’ Mitchell asked. When they started asking really stupid questions was when you knew you’d truly pissed them off. ‘Do you want to go back there?’ ‘To be honest, if it was between prison and connecting in Terminal Five at Heathrow, I’d choose T5. Just. So no.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking

“Did you break into Anthony Mead’s home?’ ‘I couldn’t even tell you where that might be. Home Counties are all the one to me.’ That was payback for Pine saying London, Los Angeles and Scotland. Really sticking it to them here. ‘So you know his house is in the Home Counties.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking

“The blog just seemed to flesh out details of what they already knew, with the only revelation to carry genuine shock value being that an innocent abroad on her first tour had taken a remarkably short time to plumb the true depths of rock depravity in shagging a drummer.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking