Simon Maltman > Quotes

“If, for some reason, I had resisted that first childish impulse to grab, perhaps my restless heart wouldn’t be forever waiting for The Next Nice Thing To Steal. Was”
― Simon Maltman, Dark Minds

“that. I wriggle into my trackies and toss my gym bag onto the back seat. My vest top barely covers the bits that matter but that doesn’t account for the shivers that are currently rippling up and down my spine. Turns out, six weeks playing a fifty quid prozzy delivered unexpected consequences. I made new friends, despite Fuller’s advice not to get too close. Friends who thought I was one of them, women whose pitiful no-hope lives made mine seem almost bearable. Girls who now rest in a jumbled heap on a mortuary slab because I thought I’d caught a break, thought I knew better than the whole of serious crimes unit put together – and DS Neil Fuller believed me. Like I said, God takes the good ones and leaves the rest of us to fight among ourselves. The”
― Simon Maltman, Dark Minds

“She reminded me of a can of Coke. Full of fizz and promise but if treated badly, might explode in your face.”
― Simon Maltman, Dark Minds