Jonathan Dunne Billys Experiment Quotes

“You can dress up a person all you want, but you can’t dress up their eyes…”
― Jonathan Dunne, Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel

“Bill’s conscience whispered to him: Only Billy isn’t your son, not really, and you know that but you don’t want to admit it. Billy was a baby you rescued…stole maybe…from Halloween cult freaks seven years ago, almost to the night. You talk about girls being an unknown quantity? Wrong, Bill, wrong. Those things… those Satanists maybe…on the moors that night are the only unknown quantity you need to worry your sweet little head about. What was really lurking inside those Halloween costumes? That’s right, Billy, the one-in-a-billion-baby, lotsa B’s, never returned to his rightful parents.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel

“He wasn’t sure if it was the matrix of light and shadow, but the gravedigger was almost certain that a black mass of mould pulsed ever so slightly inside the fissure, a dying pockmarked blackened heart.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel

“You’ve done something wrong and you know you’ve done something wrong. Sometimes we’re caught, sometimes we’re not. Justice comes in the strangest of forms. It will float to the surface sooner or later and wash up on your doorstep.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel

“Mould is the master and mistress. She hibernates in forgotten places.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel

“The sergeant cast a glance at his workmate. ‘You partake in a little bluegrass?’

Entranced by the ghastly image on the prefab floor, Maggie answered, ‘I don’t do drugs, never have.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel

“Sometimes, I don't know if I'm asleep or awake.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel