Status Updates From Penguin Group The Night Man...

“The minister is talking, but Goodhew is tired. Perhaps that’s what evil does to you, he thinks: it tires you.”

“Guns have their own silence. It is the silence of the dead to come.”

“I’m obsessed by you. I can’t get you out of my head. I don’t mean I’m in love with you. I sleep with you, I wake up with you, I can’t clean my teeth without cleaning yours as well and most of the time I’m quarreling with you. There’s no logic to it, there’s no pleasure to it.”😮

“Why the knife? he wondered as he ran. Why the knife? Who am I going to slice up with a knife? But he didn’t throw it away. He was glad he had the knife, because a man with a weapon, any weapon, is twice the man he is without one: read the manual.”

“When God finished putting together Dicky Roper,” he told Rooke earnestly over a Friday evening curry, “He took a deep breath and shuddered a bit, then He ran up our Jonathan to restore the ecological balance.”😆