Quotes from Melvin Burgess

Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...

Deborah felt his erection against her stomach and smiled up at him. She grabbed hold of his bum and moved him gently from side to side so that it rocked against her, twitching like Frankenstein's monster in an electric storm.

You had the feeling they were nice because they'd decided it was the fashion to be nice.

I'm really looking forward to being clean again. It's this weird thing with smack. First off it makes you feel so good. But after a bit, after your body gets used to it, it stops working like that. You start needing it just to stay normal... Then you get sick of it and give it up for a few days. And that's the really nasty thing because then, when you're clean, that's when it works so well.

If it's a choice between being shat on and pissed on and used and being a bastard, I'll choose being a bastard any time.

The fact is, I can't put together the sort of feelings that I get when I'm having a dirty big wank together with the kind of feelings I get when I'm having a nice friendly chat with someone. It just doesn't work.

I felt that her tears would trickle out of the telephone and on to my hands.

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

Tar had a reason, plenty of reasons. The latest were painted on his face, too.

Lepiej jest nie wiedzie? za du?o, przyjacielu. To znaczy, rozs?dnie jest wiedzie? tyle, ile si? da, ale jeszcze rozs?dniej jest utrzymywa? innych w niewiedzy co do w?asnej wiedzy.

Ja zrobiÅ'am wszystko. Wszystko. PomyÅ›l o tym - wszystko. Wszystkie rzeczy, na które byÅ› siÄ™ nie odwa?yÅ', wszystkie rzeczy, których byÅ'eÅ› ciekaw, a potem o tym zapomniaÅ'eÅ›, bo wiesz, ?e nigdy byÅ› nie spróbowaÅ'. ZrobiÅ'am je. ZrobiÅ'am je wczoraj, kiedy ty ciÄ…gle tkwiÅ'eÅ› w swoim Å'ó?ku.

Moi je vole, je plane, tandis qu'il y a pleins de gens qui sont morts de l'interieur. […] L'argent qu'ils gagnent, ils le dépensent dans une télévision neuve, alors que l'ancienne marche encore, dans une nouvelle voiture, parce que la précédente est trop vielle, ou dans des vacances pour se distraire et oublier cet affreux boulot qu'ils sont obligés de faire parce qu'ils ont besoin de cet argent…

Let's face it, just about the only advantage I can think of being married at bloody fourteen is you can have sex without your parents minding.

I could do with a little more fun and a bit less being precious. It isn't all fun, being a princess. In fact, a lot of it is pretty grim.

Now he knew why people were so scared of ghosts. It was because ghosts were so full of fear themselves.

People are always talking about love like it's something everyday. People say they love their parents, but what does that mean?

Žmog? kei?ia poži?ris – iškelk j? ir jis skraidys tartum paukštis, sutrypk – ir jis jausis tarytum vikšras