Steven Hayward > Quotes

“Well, if I dreamt at all, my would-be tormentors must have smelled the scotch and decided I was too inebriated to take any notice of them and buggered off to screw up someone else’s night.”
― Steven Hayward, Mickey Take: When a debt goes bad...

“Today, I’m sitting in the corner chair and feeling very conspicuous. First, because I’m not wearing a velour tracksuit in a choice of pastel shades, and second because I’m not a woman. You might even say, thirdly I’m over the age of twenty-five – and mentally over the age of twelve, but that would just be nasty.”
― Steven Hayward, Mickey Take: When a debt goes bad...

“My subconscious seems to like the darkness. I can sense it shifting a gear as the visual distractions are extinguished. It works better; preferring the low volume hum of the sprawling city at night in its subservience to the sounds of nature.”
― Steven Hayward, Mickey Take: When a debt goes bad...

“If I said the light was casting an amber wash around the room, glowing and fading rhythmically like a mood lamp as the tree swayed gently in the breeze, I’d be having you on because I was completely unmoved by the ambience of the place.”
― Steven Hayward, Mickey Take: When a debt goes bad...