“How do you feel about homosexuals, Mr. Scavanni?' I asked. 'I think they're great. More women for the rest of us,' he said sarcastically.” — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
“It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out… — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
“The Bible says that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Well, trouble followed me like sharks trailing a slave ship.… — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
“Don't go there, Sean. Not on a Sunday. There's no point making waves,” Crabbie said. He was as impatient as I was but maybe… — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
“I’d met spooks and blades and they lied like they had invented the concept.” — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the… — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
“The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn’t escape Yoko for more… — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
“The riot had taken on a beauty of its own now. Arcs of gasoline fire under the crescent moon. Crimson tracer in mystical parabolas.… — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
“We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament.” — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
“A black Mercedes Benz 450 SL pulled up. It was your classic hood auto beloved of terrorists, pimps and African dictators.” — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
“squirrel is in a pine tree, when all of a sudden, it starts shaking. He looks down, and sees an elephant climbing the tree.… — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
“You painted it pink?' Price asked with a grin. 'That’s lavender, you colour-blind eejit,' I said. McCallister saw that Price clearly hadn’t got the… — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
“As the Russians say, getting what you want sometimes requires moving like the knight in chess: forward and to the left.” — Adrian McKinty Copy Share
