Marketing chap working in publishing, loves Salinger, Murakami and Stroud (not always in that order)
Prologue All was quite on the empty London street save for the incessant fluttering of moths around incandescing street lamps.
“She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks.
“I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience, I had five thousand and ten.
No-one can make you feel bad without your consent.
Mike Ballet – The Boy Who Cried Werewolf Chapter 1 – ‘Try and Catch Me’ ‘There he is’ whispered Ballet, his index finger raised just enough for Luke to see where he was gesturing in the dim light...
"I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there." - F.
There is a misconception amongst people in happy relationships that those that live in solitude always suffer from loneliness.
"Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was that we did wrong, what we did was wrong.
“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye.
Each man is responsible for his own destiny, as long as he is given the power of choice.
Don't treat others in a way that you wouldn't be prepared to deal with yourself.
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
Gibson, as he was known to almost everyone except for his parents, was sat motionless in the small conservatory he referred to as his study.