Martin Dukes > Quotes

“A man must pick his friends with care but his enemies more carefully still.”
― Martin Dukes, Worm Winds of Zanzibar

“Alex had returned home to find a most unwelcome development, which had arrived through the letterbox in the superficially innocent form of a brown envelope. It might as well have been a letter bomb for its explosive impact on Alex’s day. It contained his school report.”
― Martin Dukes, Caught in a Moment

“It was clear from looking at him that Will’s relationship with cake had been a passionate and enduring one.”
― Martin Dukes, Caught in a Moment

“Life is a blink in the eye of eternity, too brief to be wasted, not even a moment of it.”
― Martin Dukes, Worm Winds of Zanzibar

“You’re something a bit special,” he said. “I mean real special. That’s what the big issue is. But how special? I guess you’ve got to find that out for yourself.”
― Martin Dukes, Worm Winds of Zanzibar

“He had not actually been hurled to the earth, but by the time Alex had scrambled awkwardly into the saddle the horse was left in no doubt as to who was in charge. It was not Alex.”
― Martin Dukes, Worm Winds of Zanzibar

“He shook his head slowly. “I can’t believe I’m having this conversation.”
“I know, it’s weird, isn’t it? It’s like a dream but it isn’t. It’s all too real. For days when I first got here I kept on pinching myself to see if I could wake myself up.”
― Martin Dukes, Caught in a Moment

“Alex nodded. This did indeed make sense, providing that one was prepared to cast away all that three hundred years of scientific discovery had set in place.”
― Martin Dukes, Caught in a Moment