A.G. Barnett > Quotes

“a grey-haired couple wearing matching green and orange cardigans. Poole guessed the knitwear had to be homemade as it would surely be illegal to sell something that clashed that badly in an actual shop.”
― A.G. Barnett, An Occupied Grave

“So where are you going to take Constable Sanders out, then?” Pool stopped laughing. “I’m not sure, sir.” “Well, you better think fast; the whole station’s already talking about it. People want to know.”
― A.G. Barnett, A Staged Death

“The bungalow was kitted out with beige walls, beige furniture and dim yellow lampshades that gave Poole the impression he was inside a giant sponge cake.”
― A.G. Barnett, An Occupied Grave

“Everyone’s got baggage,” Brock continued. “That’s how you become an adult. You accumulate baggage, good and bad, until you’re a fully formed human. It doesn’t make you damaged, it makes you who you are, it makes you whole.”
― A.G. Barnett, When The Party Died

“Was this all a life amounted to? Five or six people who didn't really know you gathered in the rain and hoping for a lump of cheese on a cocktail stick afterward?”
― AG Barnett, An Occupied Grave

“Poole wondered in what world having lunch with your mum was considered a social life,”
― A.G. Barnett, An Occupied Grave

“What do you fancy for dinner tonight?” he said, opening the fridge again. It was full of beer, plastic pouches of various gooey substances his mum applied to her face, and kale.”
― A.G. Barnett, A Staged Death

“An expletive flew from Poole’s mouth”
― A.G. Barnett, An Occupied Grave

“Are you OK?” he said as they reached the path that led off the road and towards the museum. “Yes, fine. Just got a lot on my mind, that’s all.”
― A.G. Barnett, When The Party Died

“the almost constant torrent of words his mother spilt on a daily basis.”
― A.G. Barnett, A Staged Death

“How do you do that speaker call thing again?” “On that old thing?” Poole smiled. “Who knows, maybe put more coal in or something?”
― A.G. Barnett, When The Party Died