Rupert Thomson

Quotes

• “He was dropped under a streetlamp, the only person left on the bus. A patch of mauled light. Gritty pavement, scarred wi...”
• “The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, th...”
• “His anger was still there, and he used it to break into her. He liked the way her eyes widened in alarm, as if he was fo...”
• “He'd learned something. Life was booby-trapped and there was no easy passage through. You had to jump from colour to col...”
• “This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies...”
• “The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had r...”