Scott Mackay > Quotes

“Then Gerry heard through his helmet radio the two most dreaded words any crew never wanted to hear during a space mission; "Oh sh*t”
― Scott Mackay, Phytosphere

“That tragic night when undercover officer Carolyn Yano had been gunned down while buying 150 caps from a Turkish street dealer.”
― Scott Mackay, Fall Guy: A Detective Barry Gilbert Mystery

“Edgar’s body bulked with muscles—muscles as sculpted and lithe as a cougar’s, carved from his flesh as unerringly as Michelangelo had carved David.”
― Scott Mackay, Fall Guy: A Detective Barry Gilbert Mystery

“He was much too worried about Jennifer to venture into what to him were the uncharted waters of women’s fashions, and would stick to offering up his credit card like a sacrificial lamb when the time came.”
― Scott Mackay, Fall Guy: A Detective Barry Gilbert Mystery

“And his life was a river. You went along with the flow and sometimes the scenery was pleasant. Sometimes it wasn’t. You had to make the most of where the river took you.”
― Scott Mackay, Cold Comfort

“The rain susurrated, crescendoed, like a million tiny snare drums, a lulling but disorienting sound, driven by the wind into oscillating and chaotic phrases, a gray melody without a tune.”
― Scott Mackay, Fall Guy: A Detective Barry Gilbert Mystery

“The young detective looked worried. His heavy brow had settled into an even line and his dark Piedmontese eyes smoldered with quiet wrath as he handed Gilbert his cup.”
― Scott Mackay, Cold Comfort

“you’d make me feel better.” “You do feel better,” she said. He shrugged and gave her a kiss on the forehead. “I guess I do,” he said. The house on Crawford Street, in the heart of the Portuguese District, was one of those bulky, three-storey duplexes built in the late 1920s, brick, with a second-floor bay window, and a third-floor dormer. Turquoise paint flaked”
― Scott Mackay, Cold Comfort

“The man had books on Chinese and Vietnamese history, possessed skill as a photographer, and practiced ink-and-brush Chinese calligraphy. Evidence of a cultivated man.”
― Scott Mackay, Fall Guy: A Detective Barry Gilbert Mystery

“Copper-bottomed pots, seven in all, hung on hooks next to the refrigerator, each one dazzlingly clean, the largest on the far left, the smallest on the far right, the middle ones arranged in a diminishing sequence of size.”
― Scott Mackay, Cold Comfort

“Rainwater had been tramped across the hardwood floor in ill-defined footprints.”
― Scott Mackay, Fall Guy: A Detective Barry Gilbert Mystery

“Life was precious. You had to step back and watch it every so often, just so you could appreciate every minute.”
― Scott Mackay, Cold Comfort

“Celibacy has made you mean, Joe,”
― Scott Mackay, Fall Guy: A Detective Barry Gilbert Mystery