Three days: that’s the average time for someone to relapse after getting out of prison. I knew nothing about statistics, but I knew that, in a drug high, I could escape into silence.


“Her voice was soft, and there seemed to be another accent beneath the Canadian vowels.”
― The Dying Light
― The Dying Light

“The worst were the Christians who would try to have ‘a quiet word’ with him before the meeting, trotting out the usual shit. They based the twelve steps of recovery on the Bible. He needed to say his prayers every morning. Fire and brimstone. Nothing worse than a converted alcoholic who then becomes a bullying AA zealot.”
― The Snowdonia Killings
― The Snowdonia Killings

“It was a long and irritating journey, and by the time they arrived, Kevin was pissed off. His last few days in uniform and he had to spend one of them with Ernie Teal, proof indeed that there was no God.”
― The Patient Man
― The Patient Man

“God may be the source of love, but people are often the vessels.”
― Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
― Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times

“Yeah well, there’s something wrong with that one, wheel is spinning but the hamster’s dead, I reckon.’ Edris grinned.”
― Suffer the Children
― Suffer the Children

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