“Old man,” she said. “Don’t you want to prepare or something?” “Prepare what?” “Yourself. For death.” Siri laughed. “Well, Bpoo. Let’s see. If the Buddhists are right, I’m just on my way to the next incarnation. Unless there’s a manual… — Colin Cotterill Copy Share Image
“Siri let out a silent puff of air. If he’d had a wife like this he would certainly have shot her long ago.” — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
“May I ask how your revolution's going? Revolutions always go more smoothly around a campfire in the jungle than they do in real life.” — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
“All right, here comes the philosophy. You can leave if you like but I suggest you stick it out. You don’t measure your own… — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
“The woman’s brain has two hemispheres,” she slurred. “One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time.” — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
“I’m sure he doesn’t see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.” — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
“More panic. More emergencies and disasters. Soon, emergencies fell into a sort of natural ranking: drop-everything emergencies, do-what-you-can emergencies, and you’ll just-have-to-wait emergencies. Disasters,… — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
“Encounters with the living always drained him more than those with the dead.” — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
“A good communist,” the man had said, “does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find… — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
“I dreamed the world was an awful place,” he said. “It wasn’t a dream,” she told him.” — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
“Dipping a cockroach in ink and having it scamper around the page would have left more legible traces to the average reader.” — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there.… — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
“You know, if this country just allowed a couple of hours between meetings, we might actually have time to achieve something.” — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
“So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And Communism had… — Colin Cotterill Copy Share
