Declan Burke > Quotes

“An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those compelled against their will to remain standing. A building is energy crucified against space and time.”
― Declan Burke, Absolute Zero Cool

“The man at the foot of my bed is too sharply dressed to be anything but a lawyer or a pimp.”
― Declan Burke, Absolute Zero Cool

“Now my future is all behind me …”
― Declan Burke, Slaughter's Hound: A Harry Rigby Mystery

“Bad enough, but he was limp and vacant, passive and beyond caring. A walking invitation to the kind of man who doesn’t need an invitation, prefers not to be invited.”
― Declan Burke, Slaughter's Hound: A Harry Rigby Mystery

“Anyway, that was all a long time ago.’ ‘So was the Big Bang,”
― Declan Burke, Slaughter's Hound: A Harry Rigby Mystery