Campbell Armstrong > Quotes

“Too baaaad.’ The Pickler farted, a genuine ripper. ‘Sorry, Mr Perlman. That was a cheeky wee sneaker. Canny catch they softees.’ A cheeky wee sneaker? Christ, it was practically a whole wind ensemble. Perlman worried about damage to the fabric of the chair. The”
― Campbell Armstrong, Butcher

“paperback novel of the escapist kind, SAS action stuff where men were men and women mattresses.”
― Campbell Armstrong, The Last Darkness

“Lou Perlman dreamed he was on the threshold of a thrilling new life, even as he understood he was travelling steerage on the same old battered boat of wishful thinking.”
― Campbell Armstrong, The Last Darkness

“Men dream of the unattainable, and sometimes even achieve it. But the house odds were always stacked against visionaries.”
― Campbell Armstrong, The Last Darkness

“His hand’s about as steady as a live toad in aspic”
― Campbell Armstrong, The Last Darkness

“Enthusiasm’s as slippery as a bar of soap in a bathtub,’ Lou said. ‘Now you have it, now you don’t.”
― Campbell Armstrong, The Last Darkness

“He sat in his father’s cracked brown leather swivel chair. The Judge used to sit here night after night, law books open before him, and his big fountain pen in his hand. He scribbled notes in yellow legal pads.”
― Campbell Armstrong, Butcher

“but sometimes a mystery opens up like a night flower.”
― Campbell Armstrong, Butcher

“Where was she now? in a middle-aged marriage? did she live in this city still? He had a sudden urge to see her, as if he might retrieve by looking at her the ferocious sensation of that kiss, that moment –”
― Campbell Armstrong, The Bad Fire

“life went rushing past and it preoccupied you, and suddenly you realized you were never going to read War and Peace or sit drinking blood-orange juice at a sidewalk cafe in Florence or sail the Greek islands for a month.”
― Campbell Armstrong, The Bad Fire