The Rat-Catcher's Daughter Quotes

“But I do feel writ in water, and I understand wanting something real, that you’re sure of, and striving for it. I think that’s marvellous, actually.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“Your friends arrived like a pair of very badly cast fairy godmothers and pulled my feet out of the fire on your behalf.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“They don’t teach you anything at Eton, do they? Just wanking and giving orders.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“He wore spiked knuckledusters that got you an extra year of gaol time right off, and looked purely murderous.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“You ever been really angry about the world, like furious that it’s just not fair?” “Yes,” Christiana said. “I have.” “Some of us live with it, some of us drink, and then there’s Temp and Jerry.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“He was crackling with violence, like a cat in a thunderstorm.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“Stan spat blood, feeling an unaccustomed recklessness. The worst was going to happen anyway. It was almost liberating.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“She could see the light in Stan’s eyes, the kind you got when you discovered you weren’t, in fact, the only one in the whole world.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“He was a solid brute who looked like a rough-hewn plank of wood, and belonged to the theatre body and soul.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“He hadn’t realised it was possible to be this embarrassed and not die.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“Some people would have achieved that by living a blameless life. Stan preferred not to get caught, so he took real repair jobs at Kamarzyn Repairs, conscientiously paid tax on his lawful income, and never dressed up or flashed his cash.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“The Lilywhite Boys were a pair of lunatics with no care for anything or anyone.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“We aren’t in the money-lending business,” Templeton said. “If I wanted to keep accounts for people I’d have got a job in a bank, and wouldn’t things have turned out differently. Don’t worry about it.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter

“The big one really was very big, and the pair gave off the kind of aura that—well, when men like that came into the pub you drank up and went somewhere else. They moved like a walking invitation. Go on, try me. Just try.”
― K.J. Charles, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter