New Reform
Jim Lowe
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The light in the room emphasised the array of bruises all over Jack’s body. The full-colour spectrum was present from sickly yellows, pooling purples, and blue blacks.”
“It just seemed so unmanly – just like his poetry. He’d rather fight the biggest guy in the club than submit to that much scrutiny.”
“He did notice Tony’s gleaming white teeth for the first time. Tony wasn’t known for his smiling. He tried to find a suitable word to describe this smile, but the only word that came to him was expensive.”
“Even sleep couldn’t defeat pain. Pain covers sleep. Pain always wins. Now the romance was well and truly dead between Joseph and Klaudia, it was time to head down the rocky road of mutual emotional destruction.”
“Your family, the O’Neills, guns, IRA?’ ‘No, Unionists.’ ‘Fuck! You’re not even on the right side. If it weren’t so fucking dangerous, it’d be funny!”
“This was not a romantic half-light, the white tailor’s dummies that stood like Terracotta Warriors forever on guard in her basic room, infused up the eerie glow like sunbathers soaking up the ultra-violet rays on a beach.”
“There were times when Heather tried to connect with Sean, but any ten-year-old would have struggled with a Mother explaining that, maybe, she had, ‘existentialist tendencies in my outlook on the technological world.”
“The white birds gorged on the swarm of dead bluebottles that had carpeted the ground. The cold had killed them the moment they left the heat of the chimney. The birds grew fatter before Tatum’s eyes and their features grew hideously distorted, but they continued their gluttony. The Nurse said, ‘They can’t help themselves - the poison is irresistible to them.’ The white birds devoured every bluebottle, and the heavily laden flock ascended slowly into the air and then went in search of their next feast.”
“The supporters swayed forwards and backwards like waves crashing on the shore.”
“Superficial, ha! With me, what you see is what you get?’ Bill, looked up from his drink, ‘Now that is deep!”
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trolling, humour, left-wing, left-wing-politics, trolls, atmospheric-writing, parenting, twitter, football, descriptive-writing, working-class-writer, relationship-breakdown, self-destructive, hackers, self-hatred, humor, communication-problems, poetry, self-harm, masculinity, character-development, hooligans, socialism, family-drama
