Del Trotter Quotes

But as someone famous (it was either Winston Churchill or Rocky Balboa) once said, ‘Being brave ain’t about not being punched, it’s about being punched but continuing to come back to get punched over and over again’.

The meat was pulsating. Grunting–from pigs. The corpses shifted, then rolled off onto the floor. Trotters clicked on the vinyl. They smelled him. Death-clouded eyes found the intruder. Snouts split in two, baring angry, red flesh. Human eyeballs rolled left and right within two slits in the redness. The closest pig dropped to its stomach. Snap! Fingers. A hand pulled itself out of the pink rip. Another. A pause, then bumps formed in the back. The tips of fifty-caliber bullets poked free–spines from neck to tail. The hands helped the animal feet–made the creature faster, but awkwardly.

I’ve had a lot of sobering thoughts in my time,’ he said, flicking through his tellies, ‘it were them what started me drinking.

English teacher asked me what always came at the end of a sentence and I said a parole date. Another time I had to stand up in class and count aloud to twenty. I got to ten then went into jack, queen, king…