The Outcast Hours Quotes

“I call her Disco Madonna,” Sister Mary Thomas says. “You do?” Betsy says. Sister Mary Thomas finds that response funny and laughs yet again and then she starts singing “Lady Madonna” by the Beatles but she changes it to “Disco Madonna.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours

“Initial points of mutual interest were B-movies, Douglas Adams, and Vampire the Masquerade, which it turned out we both owned but neither had ever successfully cajoled another person into playing.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours

“Fucking disgrace in here… I told you we should’ve gone to the Cock and Trumpet. The service is so much faster in the Cock.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours

“Always night shifts. It’s just better. I prefer the places and times where you meet people at a crossroads, so to speak.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours

“He parked in a side street behind the historic Labia theatre with its neon pink hearts and fairy lights blinking in the art-deco windows.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours

“ladder of ruin”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours

“What is up with this girl? Looks like a pre-school teacher but she lives next to a crack house.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours

“While I’m thinking she wiggles her way under my arm and stares the way they do when they want you to kiss them, and I recall that I’ll be dead one day and won’t be able to go back to a strange woman’s apartment and touch her vagina.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours

“You want to meet for a drink? Do I? This is all getting a little bit real for an evening where I ate takeout Indian and have a Game of Thrones episode waiting in the queue.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours

“Apart from old people, Pinky didn’t like African refugees, Filipino workers, Russian immigrants, beggars, teachers, fat people, stuck-up girls who wouldn’t talk to him, Arabs (obviously), Orthodox Jews (obviously), social workers and, of course, the police.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours

“She didn’t have to waste a coin on it, she had the same song on her music player, but she did it for the effect.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours

“else, if the whole universe is God’s overly complex Rube Goldberg machine,”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours

“Trusty phone to the rescue, I guess. I open YouTube and search ‘one hour candle flickering’ and open the first of the apparently six thousand hour-long videos of flickering candles. Thank god for the Internet. Let’s hope that demons aren’t sticklers for tradition.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Outcast Hours