Expats Adventure Quotes

“A brisk wind spiralled down Camden street kicking up debris, causing Jerry Morgan to retreat further into the doorway of Larkins the Bookmaker. He covered the flame from his lighter with his chapped hand. Inhaled and coughed, a deep rasp, the sort of chesty wheeze that came from forty years of smoking his first drag at thirteen years old.”
― Mark Shearman, Zorro's Last Stand

“Hola & hello! I'm happy to answer any questions you might have - about the book or moving to Mexico.”
― Janet Blaser, Why We Left An Anthology of American Women Expats

“(Calvino) had long ago accepted that his business model as a private investigator in Bangkok needed to incorporate spirit house offerings, lizard and gecko yammering, fortune tellers’ predictions of auspicious days and times, and Chinese reading of faces and head shapes before any decision would be made. . .the day soon came when they no longer seemed crazy.”
― Christopher G. Moore, Missing In Rangoon: Vincent Calvino Crime Novel

“All yings are time rats, time bandits. Open their guts and what you find inside their digestive tract are the second and minutes of hundreds of men’s lives. Time cannibals. All those broken minute and hour hands just lying undigested in their stomach. It makes me want to drink.”
― Christopher G. Moore, Cold Hit: A Novel

“It’s romantic: two expats in a car full of paintings making their way across an ancient city. One heartbroken, strike that, both in varying states of brokenheartedness. Aren’t we all?”
― Rick Pryll, La Chimère of Prague: Part II