The Lonely Hour Quotes

“The city becomes a financial battery farm and the suburbs do the same for families.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Lonely Hour

“They’re students. We might learn a thing or two if we talked to them occasionally.’ Bryant stopped dead and studied his partner. ‘Do you have any idea what they see when they look at us? Let me give you a clue. In Tanzania they discovered a dinosaur fossil 243 million years old. Add another couple of years on that, and that’s how we appear to them. I smell of aniseed and tobacco and you tint the grey out of your hair.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Lonely Hour

“The ageing process,’ said Bryant, pausing at the top of the stairs. ‘It’s killing me. Hang on a minute, I have to get my breath back. You know the things I hate most about getting old? Kneeling down and wondering if I’ll ever get back up again. Never leaving the house without having to pee first. Old people tell me about their illnesses and assume I care. Your lungs turn into deflated balloons, your feet hurt all the time. Look at me—I look like a bald bat.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Lonely Hour

“We’re breeding an army of psychotics.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Lonely Hour

“Cats have short lives. It’s how they punish you for getting attached to them. She couldn’t last forever.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Lonely Hour

“that the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter, but”
― Christopher Fowler, The Lonely Hour

“When sleep eludes you, embrace wakefulness, he told himself, and read until dawn.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Lonely Hour

“It’s impossible to use up cats, they just keep reappearing. Didn’t she have lots of kittens?”
― Christopher Fowler, The Lonely Hour

“You know there’s something seriously wrong with your life when the high point of your Christmas Day is worming a cat, but, as Mr Bryant likes to remind me, anyone seeking dignity will find it in the dictionary just after ‘death,’ so let’s move on.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Lonely Hour