Philip

“The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be.”
― Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

“What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’
‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’
“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Life,’ thought Septimus, ... ‘you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the other.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“… behind which the panting dog drooped like a dropped chamois. It was too hot to smoke, but he smoked his pipe anyway. The smoke wreathed a strange smile that Dorrigo later came to realise was fixed; determined to find the world cheery in spite of all the evidence life produced to the contrary.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North