66 Quotes by Christopher Fowler

She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.

The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.

The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.

Yes, he wanted to do the right thing, but perhaps this time the right thing was something different.

Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead.

​You're stuck in the past,' sighed May, returning to his paper. 'I'm not, I'm just too busy catching up to deal with the present. I'll get to the present eventually.' He dug his knife back into the toaster. 'You mean you'll get to it at some time in the future.' 'Yes, when I've finished with the past. I want to know everything before I die, and I'm running out of time.' His knife slipped and catapulted breadcrumbs across the office.

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.

Second hand bookshops are best visited alone and in the rain.

The clouds of night opened like ink blossoming in water.