Bryant & May On the Loose Quotes

“Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged, a light shown in his eyes and he became almost passionate, which is why his wife kept a stack of local history books on her bedside table.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May On the Loose

“Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May On the Loose

“If the killer had really wanted to keep his victim’s provenance hidden, he would have taken the head far away, or simply weighted it and thrown it into the fast-flowing tide of the Thames. The invention of the garbage bag had been a boon to murderers everywhere.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May on the Loose

“Life is short and filled with pain, and just when you start to finally get the hang of it, you drop dead.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May On the Loose

“I think growing older affects you in one of two ways,’ said May. ‘Either you sink into a state of perpetual fury, or you cease to get angry about anyone or anything. You make your peace with the world, and I want some peace.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May on the Loose

“May walked slowly around the body, studying it. Putrefaction had been halted in its advance, but the corpse’s skin had turned green and black, producing an acrid odour. He found it hard to imagine that this man had recently been walking around, eating in restaurants, watching TV. He was someone’s lover, someone’s son, but there was almost nothing human left. Without a head his trunk bore an unsettling similarity to something you would find in a meat locker. How would his loved ones feel if they could see him like this? ‘Get anything else?’ ‘It’s tricky because the usual decay process has been interrupted by the relatively sterile storage of the body. Usually, after two to three days you get staining on the abdomen. The discolouration spreads, veins grow dark, the skin blisters after a week, tissue starts softening and nails fall off at around the three-week stage, and finally the face becomes unrecognisable as the skin liquefies—”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May on the Loose

“Yes, he wanted to do the right thing, but perhaps this time the right thing was something different.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May On the Loose

“His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May On the Loose

“His new life required no great change in the patterns of his behaviour. It was merely an adjustment. He had always known how to make himself invisible.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May On the Loose

“Life is a very beautiful dream, he thought. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May On the Loose

“Bryant wanted to be outside digging up corpses and chasing (as much as his bad leg would allow) unscrupulous but fiendishly brilliant villains through the back alleys of the city. Instead he was meeting a clerk about forgotten bits of paperwork.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May On the Loose