Wild Chamber Quotes

“Accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope—Martin Luther King Jr.”
― Christopher Fowler, Wild Chamber

“People must really adore dogs to fondle their warm bowel movements every day.”
― Christopher Fowler, Wild Chamber

“a second-rate nation run with the economic vision of an Armenian pastry shop.”
― Christopher Fowler, Wild Chamber

“The one benefit of maturity is discovering just how crafty you can be.”
― Christopher Fowler, Wild Chamber

“Bryant lurched away from the kerb and out into the traffic without bothering to look or signal. He’d come to anticipate the chorus of horns greeting his entry into the traffic stream, rather as bugles announced the arrival of Caesar.”
― Christopher Fowler, Wild Chamber

“There can be no supernatural elements, no secret passages, no imaginary poisons, no Chinamen, no twins, no mystical intuitive powers, and the detective himself can’t have done it. To them I would add several further moratoria: no more alcoholic policemen with dead wives, no autistic idiot-savant crime-scene specialists, no oppressed female detectives derided by sexist colleagues, no overweight computer nerds in dimly lit rooms, no erudite killers arranging corpses in tableaux reminiscent of medieval paintings, no renegade detectives sharing a psychic bond with the killer, no cryptic messages hidden in museums by victims, no opera-loving loners who solve crimes because without them their lives would have no meaning, and absolutely no more reinventions of Sherlock Bloody Holmes”
― Christopher Fowler, Wild Chamber

“susurrant”
― Christopher Fowler, Wild Chamber

“The South Koreans are better educated than the English. The Swedish are happier. The Germans are more compassionate. The Azerbaijanis are more literate. Brunei has cleaner air. Latvia has faster broadband. Everywhere has a better climate. And yet for some astonishing reason you still act as if you matter. Why is that, do you suppose? Ah, yes, empire. You lost yours over a century ago. The Americans are only just losing theirs and that’s not going down so well, either.”
― Christopher Fowler, Wild Chamber