Hammers on Bone Quotes

“One of the most effective tricks in a gumshoe's playbook is the act of silence. Wait. Let the other guy pull the trigger first. It costs you nothing, and it gets you everything.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“The world’s too full of trouble to adopt those that don’t belong to you.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“The street is getting dark, the pavement tiger-striped by halogen. It wears the fog like a dame’s best scarf, slightly jaunty, with an edge of challenge.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“Night comes. Real night. Not just the chronological byproduct of Earth pirouetting around the sun, but a blackness that shoves the lizard brain nose first into the dirt and hisses for caution.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“I don’t remember who said it, but there’s an author out there who once wrote that we don’t need to kill our children’s monsters. Instead, what we need to do is show them that they can be killed.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“He told me—it was like a dream.” The story unspools in chunks and gasps, wet noises caked with pain. “He told me, he— this was supposed to be beautiful. Like being reborn. Like giving birth. Like creating life. But this is—”
“Wrong.” I finish.
“It hurts.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“chavs.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“wog.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“miasma”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“susurrus”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“bubble and squeak.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“bezoar,”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“clarion”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“trilby”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone

“The words fly like kicks, hard and loose, ugly swings with no artistry at all, just raw emotion.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone