Throw Me to the Wolves Quotes

“The night will take the day’s bones and sweat them into dream-stock,”
― Patrick McGuinness, Throw Me to the Wolves

“There’s a bloke describing himself as ‘Husky, dusky and musky’, which Gary says sounds like Snow White’s three sex-offender dwarves.”
― Patrick McGuinness, Throw Me to the Wolves

“Add the alcohol-blush on the cheeks and the crumbly looking nose with its violet cracks, and you have someone who looks a lot like a dirty puppet. There’s always something that resembles damp breadcrumbs in the creases where the different pieces of his face meet: between jaw and earlobe, nostril and upper lip, eyelid and brow. It’s a yellowish putty at the joins of his features, as if they’ve been mortared together with cheese.”
― Patrick McGuinness, Throw Me to the Wolves

“Then the bridge towards the brownfield outskirts with their stalled cranes, the half-built credit-fuelled flats now credit-crunch-frozen. The designer shops that decline into Pound Shops. Then what Gary calls Brexit-land.”
― Patrick McGuinness, Throw Me to the Wolves