R.D. Ronald

Quotes

• “The guard looked down at the scarlet bloodstains blooming on his chest. He appeared to think of something that he needed...”
• “Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in t...”
• “After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had ...”
• “He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bar...”
• “Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things...”
• “Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, in...”
• “Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravit...”
• “That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded...”
• “Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if ...”
• “Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distracti...”
• “I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and ad...”
• “This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't ...”
• “Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glow...”
• “Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your o...”
• “The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
• “Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.”
• “Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
• “Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
• “Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.”
• “To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste........ well played.”