Gravely Concerned Quotes

“It looks neater somehow. Fields, trees, rivers, all the right size and shape and all quietly doing what they were meant to do. And would carry on doing just that until the sun goes out if it wasn’t for the sodding people.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned

“Unfortunately, the lights drew the attention of a reporter armed with what looked like a blow-dried rat on the end of a stick.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned

“…every bugger is guilty of something and you’re a liar if you say anything different.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned

“He also says he’s not superstitious, just ’stitious.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned

“Boys would be queuing up to be beaten away with a stick.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned

“But knowing her, they’d have to set fire to her and beat her with nail-studded clubs to keep her away.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned

“Do you have a cape and underpants in that briefcase?”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned

“Warlow and Rhys sat on a brown leather sofa, the cushions sagging in the corners, and the backrest angling back in such a way that anyone sitting in it would be comatose in fifteen minutes.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned

“The world was changing. Status and possessions were the idols that most people, young people especially, seemed to worship. A notion fed by the media in all its hydra-headed forms. But in his experience, most ordinary people retained core values. Honour, kindness, trust. Pillars on which to build a family and life. Preserving those pillars was what got him up in the morning.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned

“behind the bars of their cages.’ Warlow’s answer tripped off his tongue.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned

“The sun, dipping lower, now cast long shadows on the west of all the buildings in the yard.”
― Rhys Dylan, Gravely Concerned