Part 1

• “Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him” - Part 1
• ”Fresh and glittering air: the new silver paint sparkled on the piers“ - Part 1
• “For he had to stick closely to the programme“ - Part 1
• “Always on time” - Part 1
• “There were reasons why he didn’t feel too safe in Brighton, even in a Whitsun crowd” - Part 1
• “His bitten nails and his inky fingers” - Part 1
• “You thought of sucking babies when you looked at her” - Part 1
• “She took care of herself. Her lipstick told you that, the confidence of her big body” - Part 1
• “A shabby smart suit, the cloth too thin for much wear, a face of starved intensity, a kind of hideous and unnatural pride” - Part 1
• “It don’t make any difference“ - Part 1
• “You might expect a hunter searching through the jungle for some half-fabulous beast to look like that - at the spotted lion or the pygmy elephant - before the kill” - Part 1
• “I know all about the cards” - Part 1
• “He had a fair smooth skin, the faintest down, and his grey eyes had an effect of heartlessness like an old man’s in which human feeling has died” - Part 1
• “You won’t want your ticket” - Part 1
• “The gentleman’ll pay” - Part 1
• “It was then Hale realized that they meant to murder him” - Part 1
• “But he couldn’t get away, he had his job to do“ - Part 1
• “He was damned (…) if he’d let that mob frighten him into spoiling his job” - Part 1
• “She could save my life, he thought, if she’d let me stick to her” - Part 1
• “I don’t like Bass” - Part 1
• “She was like a darkness to him, shelter, knowledge, common sense; his heart ached at the sight“ - Part 1
• “He thought he could lose himself safely in a crowd, but now the people he was among seemed like a thick forest in which a native could arrange his poisoned ambush” - Part 1
• “Three old ladies went driving by in an open horse-drawn carriage: the gentle clatter faded like peace. That was how some people still lived” - Part 1
• “They hadn’t needed to watch the public house for him: they knew where to expect him” - Part 1
• “Razor blades (…) the thought of the thin wound and the sharp pain. That was how Kite was killed” - Part 1
• “Cubits was slow and had a friendly way about him” - Part 1
• “The old desperate pride persisted, a pride of intellect” - Part 1
• “I’m not going to die” - Part 1
• “I’m not front page stuff“ - Part 1
• “That was the best way: to carry a witness round with him” - Part 1
• “Grey inhuman seventeen-year-old eyes” - Part 1
• “This was real now: the boy, the razor cut, life going out with the blood in pain” - part 1
• “But even then common pride, the instinct not to make a scene, remained overpoweringly strong; the embarrassment had more force than terror, it prevented him crying his fear aloud, it even urged him to go quietly“ - Part 1
• “They’ll wish they’d never been born. I’m a sticker where right’s concerned” - Part 1
• “She smelt of soap and wine: comfort and peace and a slow sleep physical enjoyment, a touch of the nursery and the mother, stole from the big tipsy mouth, the magnificent breasts and legs, and reached Hale’s withered and frightened and bitter little brain” - Part 1
• “I always say it’s fun to be alive” - Part 1
• “Life was here beside him, he wasn’t going to play around with death” - Part 1
• “It’s a good world if you don’t weaken“ - Part 1
• “She missed nothing” - Part 1
• “She was a sticker” - Part 1