Zoë Sharp > Quotes

“Honestly. There are days when I only open my mouth to change feet.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“She gave a single low cry, little more than a loud gasp, as I landed on top of her. In trying desperately to stay light I inevitably made myself heavier. Sod’s law. I”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“By the time events reach the stage where you have to stand and fight, you have to be fully prepared to put everything you’ve got into it and not hold anything back. You might only get one chance.”
― Zoë Sharp, Killer Instinct

“It’s green. Not a nice subdued British Racing, more Kawasaki Racing. A bilious shade of lime, bordering on fluorescent.”
― Zoë Sharp, Killer Instinct

“I kept motionless and tried to think like a tree.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“I’d just dropped an emotional bombshell on my father. And it didn’t seem to have gone off.”
― Zoë Sharp, Killer Instinct

“They sent me to see a community psychiatric nurse for counselling about coming to terms with what I'd done, but I have a feeling the bones will be mended long before my conscience. Like I said, the worst part is knowing that, if I was ever in the same situation, I'd do exactly the same thing again. No doubt about it. It doesn't sit well with me, that – the realisation that I have not only the knowledge, but the instinct to kill. It sets you apart from the other people you pass in the street, makes you feel alone, less human than they are. I proved Dave wrong, though. Given a straight fight between a man and a woman, neither with any particular advantage in skill over the other, it isn't a foregone conclusion that the man will always win. I suppose then, right at the end, I could have said to him, “I told you so.” Just as long as I'd said it fast enough.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“Nothing happened on the journey to their hotel, where McGregor took station. He had nothing to report when Sean and I arrived to relieve him in the morning, and nothing untoward happened the following day, either. Unless you counted the excruciating politeness with which Sean and my father treated each other. It screeched at my nerves like a tone-deaf child with their first violin.”
― Zoë Sharp, Third Strike

“How many times had people made that very same mistake with me? So often I'd almost come to rely on it as part of my camouflage.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“I may not own any carpets, but you’ve got to get your priorities right when it comes to life’s luxuries. In my case it was music, microwave and movies—probably in that order.”
― Zoë Sharp, Killer Instinct

“soft, and they don’t flinch when you kick them…”
― Zoë Sharp, Killer Instinct

“As the sliding doors opened the wet Florida heat hit me in the face like a sneezing dragon. The surface”
― Zoë Sharp, Another Round of Charlie Fox

“Meet Curly and Mo,” I said. “I want you to divide into two groups and form an orderly queue to give these two a bit of stick. Basically, do what you like to them. Punch them, kick them, knee them in the knackers. Pretend they're your boss, your spouse, or whoever's been giving you grief lately.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“Even little old ladies seem to drive like demons in Germany. By comparison, when we were balked by them I felt I could have got out and walked faster.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“Those clever hands began to smooth up and down my spine, one of his habitual gestures. He traced the indentations of my vertebrae with his fingertips through the thin cotton of my shirt, like he was reading the signs of my body by Braille.”
― Zoë Sharp, Another Round of Charlie Fox

“For Andy, who encouraged me to write in the first place. See, this is all your fault . . .”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“The Suzuki hit a trace of diesel on the second one and shied sideways, damned near high-siding me into the back end of a lumbering Volvo saloon. It would have made an ironic change for a biker to have wiped out a Swedish tank,”
― Zoë Sharp, Killer Instinct

“Self-defence,” I said slowly, looking him straight in the eye, “is all about getting out of dangerous situations without getting hurt.”
― Zoë Sharp, Killer Instinct

“Human history is littered with might-have-beens.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox

“I think my mother secretly hoped that I’d turn into one of those girlie girls. It wasn’t her fault that I firmly resisted any attempts to mould me into an ideal daughter. You can take a girl to ballet lessons as much as you like, but you can’t necessarily make her into a ballerina.”
― Zoë Sharp, A TRIPLE SHOT of Charlie Fox