“I knew a man once who'd been told never to go barefoot because of the scorpion.”
More from Patrick McGrath
“Bill: You want air in those pipes? Yvonne: We got air, bad air.”
“Africa. Now there’s a dark continent for you.”
“Spider: [turning in a shard of glass from the smashed door] I... I found this...…”
“It is a loud world and this is an island, but an island ruled by a tyrant queen.”