Quotes from Adrian McKinty

squirrel is in a pine tree, when all of a sudden, it starts shaking. He looks down, and sees an elephant climbing the tree. 'What are you doing? Why are you climbing my tree?' the squirrel calls down to the elephant. 'I'm coming up there to eat some pears!' the elephant responds. 'You fool! This is a pine tree! There aren't any pears up here!' The elephant looks perplexed for a moment, and then says, 'Well, I brought my own pears.

This place was not like the Victorian Prisons of England with their imposing red-brick and neo-gothic architecture that was supposed to impress inmates with the power of the state;no, this place looked cobbled together, shoddy and temporary and the only thing it impressed upon you was how current British policy on Ireland was dominated by short-term thinking.

She texts Kylie the dumb joke she's been saving up all morning: How do you think the unthinkable? When Kylie doesn't respond after a minute, Rachel sends her the answer: With an itheberg.

And to live at all is miracle enough.

Olann an cat cluin bainne leis.

When I get Kylie back, I'm not letting her walk anywhere by herself until she's fifty," Rachel mutters, knowing this is a pitiful horse/ barn-door statement.

I remembered about the pharma coke, went outside, and nailed a line so pure it was like getting yelled at by God.

No one confiscated the penknife. Which was lucky for Heather. Because two days later it would save her life.

The cure for everything is salt water: tears, sweat, or the sea.

My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)

Whoa, girlfriend! I was wondering if I was ever going to hear from you again. Pretty sure the hitchhiker killers or the spiders were going to get you.

Life is fragile, fleeting, and precious. And to live at all is miracle enough.

It goes Prince, Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron, Baronet.

full Scottish breakfast, which consisted of bacon, eggs, pancakes, toast, black pudding, white pudding, and haggis.

Geistesgeschichte

Are we going to do this?" "We have to." "We don't have to. We could go to the police." "They'll kill her if we go to the police. The woman who has her is a monster. I heard it in her voice. We're the worst parents in America. You know those people who overdose in the front seats of their cars? We're dumber than that.

the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist.

Is neamhbhuan cogadh na gcarad; má bhíonn sé crua, ní bhíonn sé fada

Everything is the path.

Even an imbecile knows that you never come between a grizzly - bear mama and her cub.

Children were fishing lines entangling you in their cruelties and wants and sticky fingers and dramas and disappointments. The mommy industrial complex made you think it was all going to be hugs and campfires, and peewee soccer practices, and that was all bullshit.

If you want to see sharks, I'd go to the port side. That's the left side for you landlubbers.

Evil little bastard. They can give you a nasty scratch. The koalas, I mean, not your kids!

It hadn't been love at first sight, but it was pretty damn close. He was so funny and charming and smart. All the books he'd read. All the stuff he knew.