Old Scores Quotes

“Analects”
― Will Thomas, Old Scores

“We bit into our sandwiches, hot, toasted, and full of bacon. I appreciate recipes full of spices and exotic ingredients, but sometimes the body cries out for a plain bit of bread and bacon, even when one has already dined earlier on turbot prepared by a great chef.”
― Will Thomas, Old Scores

“There was no way to know what reason the Guv had for coming, whether to trade information, have lunch, or to see his old friend. In any case, I was not going to ask. Observe and try not to be seen observing; that was the order of the day.”
― Will Thomas, Old Scores

“That was our morning, the sort for which one prepares for weeks, and then it is over and one forgets it.”
― Will Thomas, Old Scores

“It was one of those moments when one realizes that somehow one had turned into an adult. I suppose it had to happen sooner or later.”
― Will Thomas, Old Scores

“I’ve always wondered if there were any editors who didn’t smoke, or didn’t have a bottle of Scotch secreted in their desks.”
― Will Thomas, Old Scores

“We both survived, relatively unscathed.” “I feel very scathed, thank you very much.”
― Will Thomas, Old Scores