"With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess."

--

Source : Adrian McKinty (2012). “The Cold Cold Ground”, p.106, Profile Books

Adrian McKinty

#Fire Quotes #Numbers Quotes #House Quotes

“We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.”
“If you want the great and mighty things God has for you, you must get to the root of anger and deal with it. Get rid of the masks and face the things that happened in your life that made you the way you are today. Admit that you can't change by yourself. Until the root is removed, it'll continue to produce one bad fruit after another.”
“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.”
“I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food.”

Source : "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.
“If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.”
“If everything is done for me... how will I ever learn?”
“The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.”

Source : Brian Morton (2004). “A Window Across the River”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

You may also like:

Arlene Hunt
Novelist
Dennis Lehane
Author
George Pelecanos
Author
James Ellroy
Crime writer
John Connolly
Writer
Ken Bruen
Writer
Sean Duffy
U.S. Representative
Stuart Neville
Author
William McIlvanney
Writer