Ukya Quotes

“Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.”
― Matthew Crow, In Bloom

“He had to be nice to me at the moment because he had to be surrounded by people. This was because boys like him were, essentially, pasta. Everyone thought they loved him because they had never been forced to experience the true blandness of him on his own.”
― Matthew Crow, In Bloom

“Sadie was full of crap at the best of times, and in an institution where laxatives were traded like cigarettes in jail, that was really saying something.”
― James Dawson, Say Her Name

“Mum just laughed gleefully at his mounting frustration, like the villainous matriarch in a Roald Dahl story. I suspect a TV guide would describe her idea of comedy as 'dark', or, at very best, 'alternative'.”
― Matthew Crow, In Bloom

“Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die.”
― Matthew Crow, In Bloom

“Many vampires have blood-soaked pasts. Our histories are steeped in death and shadows.”
― Bella Higgin, Belle Morte

“But mum was tough. No matter how fancily she dressed, she couldn't hide her true nature. Everyone at school was scared of her. Especially the other mums. She once knocked out a man with a single punch when he barged her trolley in Sainsbury's.”
― Matthew Crow, In Bloom

“Like, like, like. My confidence grew with each click.”
― Keren David, This Is Not a Love Story

“At their time of life they should be wearing trouser suits and baking cakes, maybe spending their days penning hand-written letters of complaint to newspapers. Not drinking alcopops with crude straws in them.”
― Matthew Crow, In Bloom

“This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.”
― Claire Hennessy, Nothing Tastes as Good

“I was practically The Boy in the Bubble; all my autoimmune responses stripped bare by chemical representations of pine forests and summer meadows.”
― Matthew Crow, In Bloom