Smoke and Whispers Quotes

“lifestyle being what the rich had, instead of a life?”
― Mick Herron, Smoke and Whispers

“A waitress had joined the gathering throng; was cruising with a bottle of fizz, topping glasses, all bright-eyed and shiny. Sarah guessed someone had once told her her eyes were her best feature, because she was holding them open wider than natural. God, the hoops you had to jump through. It was a wonder foot binding had slipped off the agenda. She remembered Ginger Rogers' remark: that she'd made the same moves Fred did, only backwards, wearing heels.”
― Mick Herron, Smoke and Whispers

“If time was the means by which the universe prevented everything from happening at once, coincidence was the excuse it used when things occasionally did.”
― Mick Herron, Smoke and Whispers

“The eyelash curve of the Millennium Bridge”
― Mick Herron, Smoke and Whispers

“The staircase was a swarming mass of movements: children mostly, chattering mostly; squawking in some instances. Adults dotted among them were making the kind of calmingly authoritative noises sheepdogs would make if they could talk.”
― Mick Herron, Smoke and Whispers

“What was it you could manage in three hours? Roast a swan, orphan a trade unionist, and still have time to fire the help?”
― Mick Herron, Smoke and Whispers

“If you want to cure asthma, you have to look to the children. That’s where the condition is at its most vulnerable.” What a bizarre way of putting it. But he was the expert. She said, “I assume cleaning the air would help too.” “We all have to live in the world as it is.”
― Mick Herron, Smoke and Whispers

“abstemious.”
― Mick Herron, Smoke and Whispers

“Someone materialized beside her: short man, strange hair, dark suit, orange tie. He said something she didn’t catch. “Could you speak up? Your tie’s very loud.”
― Mick Herron, Smoke and Whispers