Blacklands Quotes

“He stared at Avery's socks and felt an odd sense of wonder. Socks were so normal. So mundane. How could someone who pulled on socks in the morning be a serial killer? Socks were not hard or dangerous. Socks were funny; foot mittens, that's what socks were. They made a knobbly hinge of your toes and became comical sock-puppets. Surely anyone who wore socks could not truly be a threat to him or anyone else?”
― Belinda Bauer, Blacklands

“Steven was writing to the Devil and asking for mercy.”
― Belinda Bauer, Blacklands

“Decide what you want and then work out how to get it.”
― Belinda Bauer, Blacklands

“Avery adapted so fast he'd have blown a hole straight through Darwinism.”
― Belinda Bauer, Blacklands

“Possibilities were the first casualty of prison life. They were curtailed as soon as the cell door clanged. And for most prisoners they would never be properly recovered. Even men who served only months or a few years suddenly discovered that the possibilities in their lives had been confiscated like shoelaces. Before they had hoped for office jobs, now they could expect only laboring or the dole. Cons lived by a whole different concept of possibility. For lifers, possibilities came to mean even smaller things: the possibility of chips instead of mash, chops instead of mince.”
― Belinda Bauer, Blacklands

“The thought of three wasted years stretching out behind him was as shocking as if they were still to come.”
― Belinda Bauer, Blacklands

“But he was a tease. Like a woman! Like a Child! In fact, he wouldn't be surprised if SL was a woman after all!”
― Belinda Bauer, Blacklands

“He was sincere in his request, but he sure as hell wasn't Yours.”
― Belinda Bauer, Blacklands

“to suffer his share of the discipline pool. It wasn't a deep pool, or a dangerous one, but what the hell; his mother had a short fuse and a punishment shared was a punishment halved in Steven's eyes. Maybe even a punishment escaped altogether.”
― Belinda Bauer, Blacklands