Saira Viola · 252 pages
Rating: (49 votes)
“Reality Tv had become the preferred drug of choice for the George Clooney obsessed housewives strung out on empty promises and splintered dreams”
― Saira Viola, quote from Jukebox: a stylish London crime novel
“She was all slump and sag her spirit withering like a tuckering weed shambling for a way out”
― Saira Viola, quote from Jukebox: a stylish London crime novel
“Everyday she loses a bit more of herself , every day another nail in her coffin house payments medical bills and middle aged isolation”
― Saira Viola, quote from Jukebox: a stylish London crime novel
“A good lawyer serves you from the cradle to the grave”
― Saira Viola, quote from Jukebox: a stylish London crime novel
“... Was a combo of Sal Dali and Ronald McDonald. A fringe celeb wheeled out for Tv appearances.”
― Saira Viola, quote from Jukebox: a stylish London crime novel
“When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure payout and a line of tacky lingerie in the works”
― Saira Viola, quote from Jukebox: a stylish London crime novel
“Nick sat alone reading a copy of The Independent . Cocaine socialists were trying their hardest to juice up Britain's economy with super casinos”
― Saira Viola, quote from Jukebox: a stylish London crime novel
“He never looked great but he's dreadful now, face thin and eyes staring like you see in cartoons of mad imams and hunched over. If that's what God does to you you should pick your friends more carefully.”
― Ian McDonald, quote from The Dervish House
“Nevertheless, disease and misfortune knew no social bounds. Nor did the immensely dangerous business of childbirth.”
― Paula Brackston, quote from The Witch's Daughter
“It is jealousy, possessiveness, hatred, anger, violence; it is a thousand and one things except love. It masquerades as love—because all these things are so ugly they cannot exist without a mask.”
― Osho, quote from Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
“What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom? Is it a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free, of which we boast?”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Life Without Principle
“Call me not wise unless you call all men wise. A young fruit am I, still clinging to the branch and it was only yesterday that I was a blossom. And call none among you foolish for we are neither wise nor foolish. We are green leaves upon the tree of life and surely life itself if beyond wisdom and surely beyond foolishness.”
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Garden of The Prophet
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