12 Quotes by Siobhan Dowd

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?

Everyone laughed their heads off, which is not what literally happened but I like the idea of laughing heads becoming detached from bodies through extreme hilarity, so it was a good way to describe things.

The world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, said that once you have eliminated all the possibilities, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true.

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

Продължихме да седим, без да говорим. Думите на мълчанието обаче са най-силни.

The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

Salim,′ She said, as if he were in the room. ‘I’ll have your guts for garters.’ I has never heard this before and wondered what garters were. Kat told me later that they are what women used to wear around their thighs to keep their stockings up and they were elasticated. I do not think guts would be a tidy way of doing this.

The difference between laughing your head off and shouting your head off is that with one you are happy and with the other you are angry.