Victor Thorpe > Quotes

“a new sin, a minor one, triggering an avalanche of repercussions from long buried and often more serious misdoings. Which just goes to show that nothing is ever lost, and the chickens do come home to roost”
― Victor Thorpe, Dealers In Death

“I had learned a long time ago that there was no point at all in setting out to meet dragons and in the like on an empty stomach.”
― Victor Thorpe, Dealers In Death

“When a criminal is rattled what does he do? He starts making mistakes.”
― Victor Thorpe, Dealers In Death

“he will go home to his village and dig out a farm girl, like a cocoyam”
― Victor Thorpe, Dealers In Death

“its four walls were covered with neatly executed drawings of vast cobwebs with insect and butterfly prey in them being fed upon by spiders. It was a pictorial scene from a nightmare.”
― Victor Thorpe, Dealers In Death

“I never ignore the phone because it could be a war breaking out or an earthquake.”
― Victor Thorpe, Dealers In Death

“I looked at the girls and sighed. Poor creatures, I said to myself, you also will end up in his jump heap. Lawrence isn't one to be caught by partygoers. When he's had his fill of your sort, he will go home to his village and dig out a farm girl, like a cocoyam, a girl who will produce his kids while he continues to enjoy his freedom.”
― Victor Thorpe, Dealers In Death

“SAP with its sharp fangs was biting everyone in the behind, for our good, we are told”
― Victor Thorpe, Dealers In Death

“the bald details of the crimes themselves were as uninteresting as stew that had lost all its meat and fish”
― Victor Thorpe, Dealers In Death

“all modern science grew from [juju] and still is nothing more than juju with diagrams and longer words.”
― Victor Thorpe, Dealers In Death

“Once a policeman, always a policeman; and what does a policeman do but present evidence dramatically and wait for reactions from interviewees?”
― Victor Thorpe, Dealers In Death

“I've even heard of a guy whose chronic migraine was cured by a bullet to the head. The craziest part of it was that he had actually set out to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head because of the headaches which had persistently refused to yield to treatment”
― Victor Thorpe, Dealers In Death